Word: playwrighting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...source of McKim's inspiration. Endowed partly by J. P. Morgan the elder and chartered by Congress, it soon took in artists and classicists. Now, aided by 50 U.S. colleges and universities, it stands as one of the finest overseas representatives of U.S. culture. Among its alumni: Playwright Thornton Wilder, Classicist Robert F. Goheen (see above), Novelists Ralph Ellison and William Styron, Poets Richard Wilbur and John Ciardi, Composers Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland and Roger Sessions...
...house. It was a house divided by prejudice-by the sniffiness and anti-Catholicism in an English-speaking family, by the rigidity and fear of worldly ways in a French-speaking one. For a while the play dribbled along in terms of trivial snags and snubs and slurs; then Playwright Joudry took to sounding louder and darker chords: tempers boiled over, a violin-playing hand was broken, the young girl in one house had a troubled love affair, a small boy was drowned...
Five Finger Exercise. British Playwright Peter Shaffer knows a tormented family when he sees one, and manipulates its members with dramatic skill. Deftly directed by Sir John Gielgud, with Jessica Tandy...
...grow tiresome in constantly pursuing sex for pleasure. The Good Soup begins to flag in constantly pursuing it for pay. For the light touch to win out over the spotted truth, Marie-Paule's career needs more amusing variety, or she herself needs a sense of humor, or Playwright Marceau a livelier wit. Yet, in addition to piquant staging and bright performances, notably by Actress Gordon and Mildred Natwick, The Good Soup has its own kind of interest of succeeding with the ice rather than the champagne, and shows character for preferring a measure of flatness to falsity...
...marks the spot of Alexander King. He is an ex-illustrator, ex-cartoonist, ex-adman, ex-editor, ex-playwright, ex-dope addict. For a quarter-century he was an ex-painter, and by his own bizarre account qualifies as an ex-midwife. He is also an ex-husband to three wives and an ex-Viennese of sufficient age (60) to remember muttonchopped Emperor Franz Joseph. When doctors told him a few years ago that he might soon be an ex-patient (two strokes, serious kidney disease, peptic ulcer, high blood pressure), he sat down to tell gay stories...