Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PERHAPS MOST POIGNANT about the Project was one of its original goals, a goal that remained central--providing relief to unemployed performers. Many were aging vaudevillians; the Depression and the emergence of the motion picture industry had killed vaudeville, and its performers were stranded. As one performer described the Theatre Project to a Writers Project interviewer, "I don't know what would have happened without it. After all what can a man of fifty...
...belief that art could assist social change was a central idea of the Modernist enterprise. It pervaded the revolutionary idealism of the Russian constructivists, the Bauhaus designers, the Dadaists and Surrealists, even the Abstract Expressionists. It has now ended, and instead of the old faith in a heroic future, we have an institution: the Mausoleum of the Briefly...
...follows him through a couple of years (it seems like more than that) of mooning over his wife Jenny's untimely demise. He buries himself in idealistic lawyering and psychoanalysis, but remains immune not only to sex but even to quite innocent social overtures. Then one day in Central Park he encounters Marcie (Candice Bergen). Since she seems to have some of Jenny's smart-mouthed spirit, he manages at last to accept her invitation to go to bed. This development actually spoils the film's only promise; for a while it seemed that Oliver...
...Stansfield Turner, director of Central Intelligence, discloses that since 1954 the Harvard Government Department has been funded entirely by his agency. In what Turner calls a move toward "a newer, friendlier spy network," Dean Rosovsky announces that three Government chairs will be renamed National Security Professorships of Government. "This simply reaffirms our longstanding philosophy," says Department Chairman Sidney P. Verba '53, donning mirrored sunglasses...
Becky Tung, bothered by a bum knee, nonetheless managed to rule the central court position and take her match in three games. Tung stepped into position efficiently, held the shot, and forced foe Liz Toomlin to stay constantly on the defensive...