Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volunteered to teach Berkeley's one-semester course because "it will not be a physics class but a physics-appreciation course -an appreciation of what physics is about, not a practical knowledge. When you teach music appreciation, you do not sit the student down and make him play the scales with no mistakes. You suggest he listen to the Ninth Symphony, and then discuss it with...
Other picture magazines play variations on the Nannen themes, but the differences are usually imperceptible. This makes it hard to explain why Stern is first in the Illustrierte sweepstakes, a mystery one also-ran has solved with the invidious remark that "Nannen has the sort of hysterical temperament it takes to run an illustrated." Some German journalists argue that that is also what it takes to read...
...rents records of its shows to the foundation for $1 a disk. This week Gilbert and Sullivan fans can hear a BBC D'Oyly Carte broadcast of Patience, and Shakespeareans will hear Stratford-on-Avon's Shakespeare Memorial Theater company do Twelfth Night. Next week WBAI will play a tape, made in Europe last summer at the Bayreuth Festival, of an uncut (close to five hours) performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger...
...hour on NBC last week, Actor Art Carney kept dialing telephone numbers, bugging long-distance operators, playing the sole part in a TV play about a sinking alcoholic. Desperately using the phone as a lifeline to the real world, he talked to his exwife, his daughter, his new fiancee and some old friends; he drank and wept, offered the drunk's typical, hopeless apologies, made glib cracks, and laughed with the sound of wind crossing a row of empty bottles. Call Me Back, a creditable but excessively maudlin first TV drama by Gagwriter Tony Webster, helped Art Carney...
...more and more schnoggered, the recognizable and disturbing outlines of the character's burnt-out marriage, his homesickness for his child, and the utter failure of his career gave the story a kind of horrifying substance-when it was not interrupted by commercials, which brutally smashed the play's mood...