Word: apex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...departure day. The price: $299 round trip New York-London, vs. $764 for regular economy class. Or, for the same price, the passenger can buy a ticket on the day of departure and "stand by," hoping for a seat. The peril: none may be available. The second is APEX (Advanced Purchase Excursion), which must be bought three or four weeks in advance. The price: $399. The advantage: a confirmed reservation. Domestically, there is an absolute plethora of fares. The Big Four?United, American, TWA and Eastern?all offer a Super Saver fare that cuts 30% to 50% off regular economy...
Fuse these qualities at their apex and you get an O'Casey. Even a lesser Irish dramatist like Hugh Leonard can be uncommonly rewarding. Da, now at Manhattan's Hudson. Guild Theater, means dad. The play is a fencing match with the ghosts of the past. The blood drawn is palpably human, the wit, parried and thrust, strikes sparks of continuous and sometimes quite unexpected humor. Says the father in Da of his late wife: "She died an Irishwoman's death-drinking tea." The laughs crop up like that, not as explosions but implosions, deeply rooted...
...does not help resolve moral conflicts, of course; it just exploits them. Family aside, the Tuesday night hits encourage viewers of all ages to think of adolescence as the apex of human emotional development. Yet if ABC's shows are junk-as a CBS executive once labeled them-they are frequently far better than the junk on the other two networks. To see why, one need only look over at various knockoffs. On CBS, for example, a new show, On Our Own, and an old series, Rhoda, are both trying to emulate Laverne & Shirley-right down to the opening...
...quiet suburban schools, and that these schools, once the very symbols of the best the U.S. could do for its children, are also suffering from a profound malaise. For the 55% or so of American teen-agers who do not go on to college, high school is the apex of their formal educational career; they will prosper or join the ranks of the unemployed largely on the basis of what the schools teach them...
...5UPER APEX Passenger specifies flight and date, but must buy ticket 45 days before departure and spend 14 to 45 days at destination...