Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three times a week, on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, both parts will run in one day. Bernard Jacobs, president of the Shubert Organization, hopes audiences will try to attend the all-day marathon, "participating with the actors in a survival experience." It might seem like an endurance test to devote an entire day to a single show; but then, this show is all about survival and transcendence. Behind its overt stage action is the unlikely but compelling story of how a struggling theater company found its soul and its success with the same desperate gamble ?risking everything...
...Bernard J. Gardner Cherry Hill...
...urgency that there isn't now," he says. But since that tumultuous period, which he said had "the highest concentration of really fine writing," student work has become more varied. Part of the reason, he says, is a lack of commanding writers. He cites Saul Bellow, Walker Percy, Bernard Malamud, and the poets John Berryman and Robert Lowell as influential, but he says no single writer or school is dominant. "All the students I see have read quite a bit," he says, "but there are curiously few intersections among their reading." Besides a drift away from confessional stories...
Last week's meeting of the board was particularly useful to Taber and Charles Alexander, who wrote this week's cover story on how fares "Reaganomics." The economists' comments amplified key points to be dealt with in the story, which was checked by Reporter-Researcher Bernard Baumohl. The guest participant at the meeting was Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office, who a few days later gave her newsmaking testimony before the House Budget Committee...
...stays mainly in the plain and that My Fair Lady is as loverly as she was in 1956. Frederick Loewe's music has lost none of its enchantment, and Alan Jay Lerner's book and lyrics, which of course owe more than a passing debt to George Bernard Shaw, seem more than ever to be models of literacy and wit. Some other musicals from the '40s and '50s-The Most Happy Fella, for instance-now seem dated; this one, which was set so long ago anyway, will probably never show...