Word: blum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offices, stripping military installations of active-duty personnel, and decimating Broadway casts. Jane Morgan in the title role and eight other players in Mame had to yield their places to understudies. The cast of George Ml had five out. Playing the barber in Man of La Mancha, Leo Blum became so ill that he fell off the stage, and since his understudy was ill, the stage manager had to pinch-hit. At the Metropolitan Opera, John Alexander had to give up after two acts of La Sonnambula. And in Philharmonic Hall, Pianist Jose Echaniz could not even make it past...
...Blum's, New York...
...week to investigate charges that Paterson police used unnecessary force in quelling recent disturbances in Puerto Rican neighborhoods. Without question, New York City police used extreme, sometimes brutal tactics against students during spring demonstrations at Columbia University. "As far as police practice is concerned," says Stanford Social Scientist Richard Blum, "the U.S. has to be considered an un derdeveloped country...
...completely paralyzing France's universities and tying up many lower schools as well. Inspired by the students' example and glad of the chance to vent their own grievances, striking workers seized scores of factories in the worst epidemic of wildcat work stoppages since the days of Leon Blum's weak Popular Front government in 1936. By the weekend, the fast-spreading wave of strikes had squeezed transportation to a crawl, crippled mail service and both Paris airports, and spread into dozens of manufacturing industries. Barring the remote possibility that the government could find a way to reverse...
...Edna St. Vincent Millary trifles elegantly around the theme of deceit--and so succeeds in shocking. Peopled by the likes of the menacing Colthurnus (David Palmer) the phantom prompter of the play-within-the-play and the stock, intuitively and irrepressibly daft Pierrot and Columbine figures, played by Jeffrey Blum and Lorraine James, of the play-without-the-play, the production seemed to slow down irreparably midway through. But Dean Ahmed, directing, manages to frame an unexpected climax to end the play on a note of crotchety sarcasm. The vivid costumes and masks were designed by Ellie Meglio...