Word: broker
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Britain's National Theater is a marriage broker of time: it can wed a present audience to a past play and make them live in timeless harmony. It is also an honor scroll of what makes a repertory group outstanding: fluid ensemble work, resourceful acting, thoughtful direction, intuitive dramatic taste, a sense of purpose and style, a firm guiding intelligence and a zestfulness of spirit. Currently making its first Western Hemisphere appearance with a Canadian tour, the troupe presents three classics from two centuries: Strindberg's Dance of Death and Georges Feydeau's A Flea...
...Securities dealers owe much of their livelihood to investor confidence built up by public disclosure of corporate earnings. Yet the overwhelming majority of them consider their own net incomes to be nobody else's business. This double standard is well entrenched, wholly legal and-at least from a broker's view point-eminently logical. After all, partly by resisting demands for more such data, Wall Street has so far fended off the Securities and Exchange Commission's four-year-old proposal for lower fees on big-lot stock trading, the most profitable kind...
...based on Holt's minute note taking and sharp observation in 14 years of teaching above-average students in such selective sanctuaries as Aspen's Colorado Rocky Mountain School, Cambridge's Shady Hill and Boston's Commonwealth. The son of an affluent Manhattan insurance broker, Holt's own education included Switzerland's elite Le Rosey, Phillips Exeter and Yale ('44). Once fascinated by physics as "a way of getting at the truth of things," Holt's confidence in schooling was first shaken when the atom was split. His Exeter teacher simply asked...
...current crisis-and brokers' calls for relief-peaked two weeks ago, when the Big Board shuddered to two 13 millionplus share days in a single exhausting week (TIME, Aug. 11). As an unwanted result, said one Manhattan broker, paperwork in brokerage firms was backed up "like the Long Island Expressway in rush hour...
Ouija-Board Sociology. "From his position at the key institution on urban affairs," says a top Administration urbanologist, Moynihan "has the greatest broker position in the world." Moynihan, to be sure, is not universally admired, nor are his ideas. Some critics, like the Rev. Henry Browne, a Catholic priest on Manhattan's upper West Side, accuse him of practicing "Ouija-board sociology," while a friend from the London days, Broadcaster Paul Niven, notes that he has a "natural instinct for self-publicity." Yet few have articulated the urban crisis so well, and few have put forth so many thoughtful...