Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...named Tallulah Bankhead 2nd (the star's great-niece)-showed up to watch a new musical, Via Galactica. They also searched a gold-lettered list to see who was among the 123 names on Broadway's first hall of fame. First on the list: Playwright-Director George Abbott, 85, who observed: "That's not talent, just alphabet. The only people who can beat me are named Aaron...
...photography as an art procured for it the first National Endowment Grant for photography. Such foresight is evidenced further by Pratt's selectors for its exhibition. Top billing is given to lesser-established artists, although a few 20th century masters, such as Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Diane Arbus. Berenice Abbott and Minor White have adequate representation for comparison...
...Harvard-and Yale-trained Shakespeare scholar from the University of California, San Diego, to head the endowment. Berman had complained in his 1968 book America in the Sixties: An Intellectual History of the "disastrous vulgarization of intellectual life"; he once described Bertrand Russell and Herbert Marcuse as "the Abbott and Costello of political philosophy." Dissatisfied with McArthur's projects, he set out to change the endowment's direction...
Harvard's freshmen are a brighter spot in the sailing picture. Coached by last year's All-American captain Abbott Reeve, the Yardlings won their elimination heat on Saturday for the New England championships at the end of April, where they stand a good chance. On Monday in the Greater Bostons, the freshmen could only manage a third. Tim Black, Ogden Ross, and Steve Saudek formed the backbone of the team's effort...
Andover is an all-boys school, although it does conduct a limited "co-ordinated" education program with neighboring Abbott Academy, an all-girls school, Sizer said yesterday that he is "definitely in favor of co-education at Andover...