Word: central
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of the responsibility for this vacuum belongs to the director. He evidently has not bothered in the least to get anything more than a shell of a character from his actor. We get waving hands for nervousness; pained looks for sorrow, moody line readings for introspection. With no central character around, we must work too hard to find out what Horovitz is talking about. Finally we give up and watch the proceedings as we would a Sid Caesar sketch. While some of the laughs are there, the play...
Cambridge is the only one of the 70-odd communities participating in the Model Cities program that gives residents of the model neighborhood--a 268-acre area east of Central Square--control over the board running the program and the right to veto any of the board's proposals in a referendum. It is believed that all 29 proposals will be approved...
Pantagleize, subtitled "A Farce to Make You Sad," gets its name from the central character, a half-philosopher, half-clown unwittingly involved with a cell of revolutionaries who take him for their leader. Pantagleize falls in love with a young girl who is one of the leaders of the revolution, but she is killed by the police. Eventually the revolutionaries are all caught and executed. Pantagleize too is shot: he dies like a marionette, uncomplaining, manipulated to the very end by forces he never could understand...
Died. Yusif Bedas, 56, former president of Lebanon's Intra Bank, central figure in one of the Middle East's most spectacular financial scandals; after a long illness; in Lucerne, Switzerland. Bedas founded a money-changing business on a $4,000 stake in 1948, built it into a $350 million empire centered around Intra. But in 1966, as depositors' money suddenly flowed out of Beirut, Intra collapsed; Lebanese authorities held him responsible for "unorthodox banking practices," but Bedas maintained that "enemies" had conspired to break...
...moment, most Nixon advisers lean toward quiet consultation in the clubby fraternity of central bankers and treasury officials as a more promising approach. Though the Nixon camp is committed to no specific program for monetary reform, any effort would include debate on the means...