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...character who bounces around in knee pants and Buster Brown collar and talks with God about his rasping racism? See THEATER, Laughing at Lester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Nov. 29, 1968 | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...libretto by Playwright-Film Maker Richard Foreman bristled with the same anarchic spirit. Against a background of film strips and flashing lights, it unfolded a plotless jumble of scenes that might have resulted from a collaboration by Brecht, Beckett and Buster Keaton. "Nobody looks at me," sang one character in a typically enigmatic line, "therefore I retrace my steps." In another episode, a scruffy charwoman incongruously trilled out an aria while brandishing a three-foot wooden spoon at the other characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Spinning the Dial | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...these adventures were, in fact, initiated by the same Robert Morris, 37, a Buster Keaton-faced Kansas Citian who teaches at Manhattan's Hunter College. He is renowned in avant-garde circles as both the creator of bafflingly simple minimal sculptures and the author of still more baffling tracts in their defense. What seems to bind together Morris' dance, sculpture and writing is one fact: he is apparently dedicated to the proposition that clarity is square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Mastery of Mystery | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

Harold S. Tzeutschler, an Ed School student, came in second in 41:05 on another standard bicycle. The first racing bike, ridden by Martin E. Zeller '68, broke the tape in 41:15. He was followed by Robert A. Buster...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Cyclists Treated to Busses From Wellesley Belles | 5/6/1968 | See Source »

...phoned a middle-level Washington official and demanded campaign assistance. "I'll be happy to do everything I can after the convention," said the official, an appointee committed to serving the President for the moment. Snapped the Kennedy aide: "After the convention we won't need you, buster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Quickening Passions | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

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