Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Obviously, a lot of hard work has gone into the first production on the stage of a new theatre that is both beautiful and useful. But in regard to the performance, a theatregoer has to ask himself a harsh though simple question. Is it interesting or is it dull? In my opinion, it is dull...
...from the Nationalist Chinese offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu, couldn't that be interpreted as appeasement? Answered Kennedy: Administration experts including Secretary of State Herter (as Under Secretary in 1958) have declared Quemoy and Matsu strategically indefensible, so "we should consult with [the Nationalists] and attempt to work out a plan by which the line is drawn at the island of Formosa ... I think it is unwise to take the chance of being dragged into a war which may lead to a world war over two islands which are not strategically defensible." Nixon seized on the answer...
...this off his chest, General Medaris put away his typewriter and went to work as president of the Lionel Corp.-to make electric trains and perhaps ultimately to land defense contracts from those inefficient businessmen in government...
...other side of my case. Between Boston and Los Angeles over 1500 colleges and universities offer courses for academic credit in theater work. Acting courses, directors' laboratories, design courses, seminars in scene-painting and stage lighting, in children's theater, programming, business management; courses in playwriting, stage managing, dramatic criticism and theater history, as well as physical expression or dance, voice, and dozens of related subjects--all these are attracting an unprecedented number of undergraduates and graduate students. "Dramatic Art" or "Theater" or "Speech and Drama" (theater is often subordinated to speech departments) have in the past 25 years acquired...
...elaborate curricular courses in theater practice for students without professional aspirations, does it follow that no instruction or advice should be offered to such avocational students? I don't think it does. After all, they perform before a public which has a right to expect some competence, their work necessarily reflects credit or discredit on play and playwrights, their work is (or anyway can be) educational for themselves and their audiences (an acting group concerned only with its own rewards deserves no public), and students actors are usually, in name and in fact, associated with the college, which itself...