Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordinary theatergoer, the new season brings the hope of reliving some enchanted theatrical evening of the past. For the actor, the new season holds out the hope of a breakthrough to fame -after which he tends to abandon the theater like a Brando or a Burton. The producer nourishes the hone of a croupier to rake in the chips. The backer, that garishly garbed seraph who roots for his cash on opening night with cacophonous enthusiasm, hopes for some sort of glittering new social credential and the consolation prize of a virtually guaranteed tax loss. The critic approaches...
Having made some sort of homosexual breakthrough with Mart Crowley's gentle tragicomedy The Boys in the Band, off Broadway promises to go farther with a revamped version of Fortune and Men's Eyes. This is an angry, violent foray into prison homosexuality, staged by Sal Mineo to include a naked onstage rape sequence. Nothing so nude or erotically minded as Oh! Calcutta! is presently scheduled...
...SECOND thread to our story begins at M.I.T. in the late fifties, where the revolution in computer technology was just getting underway. The great breakthrough that was being made at this time was in the development of computer programming techniques that allowed several different people to work on different tasks on a single computer simultaneously. The development of such "time-sharing" systems enormously improved the efficiency and usefulness of computers, and in 1963 ARPA agreed to fund a project which was intended to develop the full potentialities of the new time- sharing technology. This program (Project MAC) developed over several...
...really looking for something with a little more novelty than could be offered by yet another M.I.T.- ARPA contract. M.I.T. is the Defense Department's house whore, so although the content of the Pool-Licklider project might have been novel enough, the institutional arrangement could hardly be considered a breakthrough. But if Harvard could be persuaded to join the venture, the project would appear somewhat more new and exciting...
...Have what passed for being art forms ever before been so drenched and impregnated with erotic obsessions, so insanely preoccupied with our animal nature and its appetites?" demanded Muggeridge. "Let a collection of yahoos but take off their clothes, cavort about the stage and yell obscenities and a great breakthrough in dramatic art is announced and applauded." Britain's Minister for the Arts, Jennie Lee, was not impressed. "Nonsense," she said. "The new must by its nature include things which are not acceptable to everyone...