Word: ble
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...installment buyer is in for a shock this week. If he applies for a car loan, his banker will have to tell him that the true interest rate is about dou ble the 6% or so that the bank may have been advertising. If he uses a de partment store revolving-credit plan, his next bill will inform him that the 1½%-a-month interest charged on his unpaid balance works out to a yearly interest charge...
Director Michael Kahn puts the sig nature of his determined intent on the play from the outset. An improvisatory prologue serves as a metaphor for the work. In sweatshirts, football jerseys and dungarees, members of the cast drib ble a basketball, wrestle, somersault and shadowbox. Someone pumps back and forth on a child's swing. The seat of that swing will later serve as Harry of Monmouth's throne. The rising intensity of sticks beaten rapidly together, a rhythmic tapestry of violence, suggests a neighborhood gang rumble. One knows in one's slightly chilled bones that this...
...even if some universities are destroyed in the process. Harvard's Dean Franklin Ford describes the varying degrees of militancy as a series of concentric circles; most students are mainly onlookers (see chart). Unfortunately, the torrent of spring-term disorders has clearly put dozens of campuses in dou ble jeopardy. Repressive state legislators are on the war path; so are vigilante-minded conservative students. Unless moderates intervene, campus freedom and evolutionary reform may well be sacrificed to left and right extremists...
...march on poverty. Let us march on ballot boxes, march on ballot boxes until race baiters disappear from the political arena, until the Wallaces of our nation trem ble away in silence. My people, my people, listen! The battle is in our hands...
...pixyish grimace on dresses. "Can you imagine wearing my face out in public?" giggles Pollard. "Making money off my face?" He's already swamped with new scripts, has signed on for another movie, and this week opens on Broadway in Leda Had a Little Swan. In a dou ble role, he plays a doddering prep school headmaster and, more in character, an ultra-hippie student leader...