Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...familiar with the script of the Oberammergau Passion play. Perhaps it does contain, or has contained, expressions of special blame and bitterness toward the Jews [March 21J. If this is the case, they are the product of a too general Christian failure to comprehend the meaning of Calvary...
...Flying Trapeze Sir: TIME made these simple mistakes [in the March 28 story on William Saroyan's play, Sam, the Highest Jumper of Them All}: 1) Sam Hark-Harkalark [not Harkaharka-lark]. 2) 100,000 [not 500,000] defective ?5 [not pound] notes...
...Match Play. In London, after Edward George Carter, 39, testified that his wife had slapped him in the presence of his stepmother, left him in the middle of a dance floor, smacked him on the head with a potted plant, and hidden the family supply of tea, the judge dismissed the divorce suit on the grounds that such incidents amount to "a case of ordinary wear and tear of married life...
...Franco is worried about the future. He fears that his National Movement may splinter into fighting factions of Monarchists and Falangists, hopes to use the monarchy as a rallying point to unify the movement. The change in balance has given Don Juan an important ace to play: the continued presence of his son Juan Carlos in Spain is vital to Franco as a symbol of unity and the monarchy to come...
...Broadway by Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse, was constructed on the principle of the basketball. A variety of vapid college humors were compressed into an airtight container of cynical wit laced up with some penetrating moral strictures. Joshua Logan, who produced and directed this film version of the play, has managed with singular skill to peel off the wit and the penetrating remarks. What is left is rather difficult to describe, but it sure doesn't have much bounce...