Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lust as love of law. They, with their icy, refined, half-mad sense of justice, and the American, with his coldhearted dog-eat-dog view of life, face one another with contrasted inhumanity; the space between them seems nothing less at times than all groping humanity itself. But the play has a parlor-game brittleness and bite, and at its best a thrusting theatricality. Adapter Yaffe needs half an evening of won't-you-walk-into-my-parlor? before he is ready with his parlor game; and is perhaps overready to have his American convict himself, to create another...
...There is an interior fire of intellectual curiosity; there are well-kept gardens of esthetic hedonism and horizonal vistas of man's culture and fate. Fully as attractive as the book's observations is the afterimage it leaves of the civilized use of enforced leisure, the serene play of the mind amid 20th century bustle and terror...
...Broadway The Andersonville Trial. With overtones of Nuremberg, the play re-creates the post-Civil War trial of the Confederate officer who ran the camp for Union prisoners at Andersonville, Ga. Playwright Saul Levitt ultimately fails to search out the moral issue he raises; but the courtroom battle, theatrically charged by Director Jose Ferrer, makes a better-than-average evening of theater...
...Miracle Worker. Superb performances by Actresses Anne Bancroft and 13-year-old Patty Duke, in a far from perfect play, make extremely moving theater of Helen Keller's early life...
...current affairs. For most of the 100 questions there are four choices-and only one is the correct answer. Be careful: note that in many cases all but one of the four alternatives are true, which makes the false alternative the correct answer to the question. Any number can play if those taking the test merely write the letters representing their answers on a sheet of paper and make no marks on these pages. The correct answers are printed on page 118-but don't peek! Anyone who can get 100% is really well informed...