Word: acte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week the editors take pleasure in announcing their association with another group of experts: TIME's board of economists, composed of eight distinguished scholars. The board will not be called upon, of course, for routine readings of economic happenings and business activity. Rather, its members will act as consultants on major developments-as well as gather four times each year with the editors in New York for a full day of wide-ranging discussion across the entire spectrum of past, present and future economics...
...lose, Nixon believes that he has ample cause to continue his fight. Were he to withdraw the nomination, he reasons, the act would lend credence to charges that Haynsworth was less than candid about his financial dealings. Nixon also stands to gain political points in the South; Southerners, who appreciate the style of the gallant loser, will credit the President for his valiant fight on behalf of their man. Nixon's refusal to quit is also aimed at muting criticism that he has been a vacillating leader...
...Dodd committee concludes that the only way to defuse the schools is to separate the violent children from the others and provide them with care, help and rehabilitation. The committee is thinking about amending the Juvenile Delinquency Act of 1965 to provide the schools with ancillary services. But it may be a year before the committee makes any concrete proposal or persuades Congress to help...
Their complaints, tender memories and snide remarks about the deceased evoke the contradictory aspects of Antoine's character. In the second act he materializes onstage, rehearsing a group of actors in his last play. To be performed for himself alone, it is about how his relatives and friends will react to his death. In the play-within-the-play (a favorite Anouilh device), the characters and their lines are identical with those of the first act but enriched by Antoine's commenting presence...
...third act is an epilogue in which a plaque is unveiled in honor of the dead playwright, who has presumably gone to the grave without revealing the existence of his last prophetic play. The dialogue rains poisoned darts on love, marriage, friendship and bourgeois values, making Cher Antoine a precision-tooled piece of lapidary Gallic...