Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unimpressed by avant-garde obscurity, Kerr is wary of many of the modern plays his colleagues are so quick to champion. Beneath the plays' tough-minded exterior and the four-letter words he detects a sentimentality that seems to say the world is all wrong while the author is all right. While other critics gushed over the "lofty literacy" and "awesome depths" of Edward Albee's Tiny Alice two seasons ago, Kerr stuck to his standards. He found the play arch and pretentious: "The language becomes picky, tricky; at once rigid and self-indulgent, as though everything were...
...members, corporations with sales of $1 billion or more a year form U.S. business' most exclusive club. Last week, noting a mutual dependence on that "ever renewable natural resource, the tree," Manhattan's U.S. Plywood Corp. (annual sales: $541,349,000) and Hamilton, Ohio's Champion Papers Inc. ($456,313,000) announced a merger that, with normal growth, should easily create a new member of the club. With stockholders' approval, Champion Papers President and Chairman Karl R. Bendetsen, 58, and U.S. Plywood President Gene C. Brewer, 52, will head the new family tree-to be known...
AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE (NBC, 4:30-7:30 p.m!). The season's opener in the A.F.L.: the defending-champion Buffalo Bills v. the runner-up San Diego Chargers, at San Diego...
Divorced. Floyd Patterson, 31 , former world-heavyweight boxing champion; by Sandra Hicks Patterson, 29, who complained that he refused to heed her plea to quit boxing; after ten years of marriage, four children; in Juarez, Mexico...
...folks in Cleveland to the best tennis of the entire match, acing the Mexican eight times with his slashing serve, and outshooting him with deft passing drives in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. To cap it off, 19-year-old Cliff Richey, the U.S. clay-court champion (TIME, July 29), made his own Davis Cup debut in the other singles by beating Mexico's Marcelo Lara in a grueling four-set match...