Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took me until I had earned my Ph.D., reached middle age and read your Essay "The Big Puzzle: Who Makes What and Why" [June 13] to decide to desert a profession I'm good at and one I love-teaching...
Characteristically, the Yuvali found no port in Asia that was willing to accept its surplus cargo, which included two dentists, a surgeon, a professor of geography, a former ARVN major, two bankers, two nurses, several fishermen, and 16 children under the age of ten. Captain Tadmor made an unscheduled stop in Hong Kong to get the refugees desperately needed medical attention; authorities in the British crown colony refused to allow them ashore on the ground that the Yuvali was not scheduled to call at Hong Kong...
...Jones and Harvey Schmidt, is unlikely to have the same success, largely because its authors don't seem to have caught on to that fact. The musical manages to incorporate every cliche ever proposed about marriage--from the shy newlyweds through the crises of middle age to the comfort of old age--without surprising the audience once. Quite a feat, but tedious nonetheless...
...problem, however, is that all too often it ends up looking like a revolving tableau rather than a play. The effect is hardly likely to be either effective or surprising through two full acts. Haskell gives us one interesting moment, when the two actors make themselves up for old age onstage, but for the rest, well, the direction is the same as the book. Predictable...
...cross-section of the city's population. With stops at Northeastern University, Boston College, and at least a dozen other schools, the Green Line gets plenty of students, but it also gets much more than the 19-to-27 crowd that sometimes starts to seem like the only possible age group in the Square--it's a major boon to Boston's sense of community...