Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play the game again. The habits of our minds force us to once again look for the "explanation" for the events we see. In The Birthday Party, one could explain McCann's and Goldberg's actions as a fiendish underworld plot to get Stanley. Here it's just as simple: Ruth must have been a prostitute when Teddy married her (the suggestion is made several times in the play). Perhaps Teddy has brought her to Europe to work out the unresolvable differences between them, has failed in his efforts, and is now willing to let the family solve his problem...
...Happy Birthday Wanda June, Kurt Vonnegut's first film, Abbey...
...legally a non-profit agency, was founded in 1957 and is now made up of 13 or so individual divisions: birthday cakes, blotters, catering, charter flights, Europe by car, guided tours, linen, moving, painting, publishing, refrigerators, rings and union news...
...paper's coverage. His announcement of plans to visit the state rated a three-column headline on Page One, while Edmund Muskie's formal declaration of candidacy was reported on page 12. A note from Chiang Kai-shek to Yorty, acknowledging the mayor's birthday greetings to the generalissimo, got front-page play. Unfavored candidates get heavy coverage in unfavorable situations. When Muskie was noncommittal about Gay Liberation, the Union Leader was there to point out on Page One that he had not condemned it. When Mrs. George McGovern mistook a portrait of Daniel Webster for William...
...HUMORIST-Sociologist Lee Weiner, 32, member of the Chicago Seven. Weiner's appointment to the Rutgers faculty was controversial from the start, but his real trouble apparently came from a birthday party for Black Panther Leader Bobby Scale. A New York Times reporter asked Weiner what he was doing nowadays, and he jokingly answered, "I'm trying to organize a new kind of Communist Party in New Jersey." New Jersey legislators protested to Governor William Cahill. Weiner, anxious not to jeopardize his academic future, agreed to leave...