Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME reader to all others, I'd like to be recorded as in complete agreement with your astute reviewer's perceptive opinion of the new off-Broadway musical Ernest in Love, especially in regard to the manner in which the Anne Croswell lyrics "graft smoothly onto the play as in a superbly haughty number called A Handbag Is Not a Proper Mother." Like the "superbly haughty" Lady Bracknell, the famous Wildian character who sings this number, the "superbly haughty" actress (anonymous in your review) who essays this role is indeed herself a "very proper mother...
...want to play the numbers game with you, but the 360 British Roman Catholic martyrs from the year 1585 to 1680 can hardly compare with the 280 martyrs during the reign of Queen Mary (1553-1558). It is also pertinent to recall that the reasons the 200 persons were put to death during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth were not religious but political. Far more significant, however, is the difference between persecution by the churches of the Reformation and death for heresy. Thomas Cranmer protested against faith by compulsion, and there was a storm of protest in Protestant churches...
...Connection. Playwright Jack Gelber makes a devastating assault on theatrical illusion, presents a pad full of junkies in a formless, utterly naturalistic play that has sporadic distinction...
Although milder American pop music was played in Germany even during the Nazi years, jazz as such was suppressed by the Nazis as "art/remder Niggerjazz"; in Frankfurt a few musicians used to rent boats and row back into the swampland along the Rhine to hold their jam sessions. Postwar jazz in Germany was fostered by U.S. Army bands and the Armed Forces Network, and there are now about 50 professional German combos and roughly 1,000 amateur jazz bands, many of them on high school and college campuses. Other amateurs play in abandoned bomb shelters or in the "jazz-houses...
...coming from behind for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Britain's 6-ft. Christine Truman. When Darlene and Karen needed just 45 minutes to humiliate Ann Haydon and Angela Mortimer in the doubles, 6-0, 6-0, the U.S. seemed well in command of play...