Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seeking to hand down our own foregone conclusions because we have none. We want to discuss and act upon the issues that have been raised with Harvard students, and to gather ideas and insights into the problems and meanings of our lives. Together we can create an atmosphere conducive to individual responsiveness...
Well, you can always write plays. The first act and a half of John Herbert's Fourtune and Men's Eyes, a 1967 Off-Broadway play now at the Craft Experimental Theatre, is full of today's fag minstrelsy. In this case, the setting is a Canadian men's prison. The inmates, three decidedly homosexual, the fourth forced to undergo the initiation, are the chorus. The star among them is Queenie. Played with bravura by Marlo Ferguson in a tarnished Carol Channing wig, he--or, as you begin to accept the play's terms, she--is an irrepressible performer...
...turned his back on a footlight fame that shines far beyond Italy. Son of a recently retired railroad worker, Fo was an enthusiastic amateur actor in his youth, appearing in student plays while studying architecture in Milan. At 24 he worked up a one-man act reciting monologues. His first nationwide success was a three-act tragi-comedy that examined the making of a hero, coming to the conclusion that the hero is only a creation of the "big boss," who used him to keep the workers distracted while the boss exploited them. His greatest hit, written...
...said that his department may bring suit to break up some conglomerate mergers that have already taken place. McLaren thus goes beyond his Democratic predecessors, who showed no inclination to test their legal power to fight conglomerates. If McLaren sues, he will invoke Section 7 of the Clayton Antitrust Act, which prohibits corporate acquisitions that "substantially" lessen competition. Meanwhile, Congress is considering a bill to end the favorable tax treatment accorded to companies that issue debentures to pay for mergers...
...spin their first big buck." When spun by Jim Hand Enterprises, the variations are seemingly endless. Hand's boys, traveling in his fleet of new Jaguars and Cadillacs, are constantly on the move. Deacon Jones is taking dancing lessons in preparation for his Las Vegas nightclub act. There are the Lance Alworth dry-cleaning shops. The Donny Anderson boys' camp. The Rick Barry syndicated sports column. And, named according to regional fan interest, the Lance Alworth, Donny Anderson and Rick Barry restaurants and motels...