Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...coincidence, there is a My Fair Ladylike tone to Camelot's credits. Not only did Lerner and Loewe create the play, but Fair Lady's Director Moss Hart signed on again, along with Julie Andrews as Guinevere, Choreographer Hanya Holm, Set Designer Oliver Smith, Conductor Franz Allers. Beyond that, Lerner's libretto is drawn from one of the best novels of the loth and 20th centuries, T. H. White's The Once and Future King. And Arthur himself is arriving in the shape and voice of Wales's and the Old Vic's Richard Burton, who at 34 is numbered...
...weight, only slightly trimmed from its original 3 hr. 40 min., while the mood of the cast settled into general uncertainty. Knights were complaining that their chain mail was wearing out and tempers were wearing out too. When a dancer tripped over a piece of scenery last week, Set Designer Smith was heard to snap: "I hope you broke your leg." Novice squires were learning from cynical old-timers that this was the time to pursue chorus girls, since they were away from home, lonesome and worried. One reason spirits did not fall farther was that some were being consumed...
...within earshot: "I've got Alan pregnant." Lerner delivers the balance of the lyrics, working with obsessive intensity ; when he is really going strong, he feels ice-cold, has been known to light a fire in the middle of a heat wave while writing. Over the years he has set up a number of semi-fast rules for himself: avoid s sounds, avoid eer sounds above A above middle C, etc. As a lyricist, Lerner lacks the ultrasophistication of a Cole Porter, on the other hand would never commit the more cloying sentimentalities of Oscar Hammerstein. At their best...
...morning Globe was at death's door. Its makeup was sloppy; its local coverage was dull and spotty. The lace-kerchief editorial page was dubbed even by staffers as "the old lady." In 1955, Chain Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse bought the Globe-Democrat for $6,250,-000 and set about saving...
Ever since the time of Malthus (1766-1834), prophets of doom have warned that if the human race does not stop reproducing so fast it will eventually outbreed its available food supply. But whenever the pessimists of the plundered-planet school have set a date for this unhappy event, they were proved to be wrong. In advanced countries the technology of food production has kept well ahead of population growth (TIME, Nov. 8, 1948). The U.S., with its burdensome crop surplus, is farther from starvation than ever before, and other countries are in the same condition. Only technologically backward countries...