Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like all decent/indecent Restoration comedies, the play cuts to the chase, the chaste and the unchaste. The masquerading Master Aimwell (Ronald Pickup) pursues Dorinda (Sheila Reid) with lofty ardor. They are a fluttery pair, brimming with sentiment and much given to pledges of undying affection and confessional honesty. The masquerading servant, Archer (Robert Stephens), has the cool, calculating charm of an accomplished womanizer. The woman he now wants, Mrs. Sullen (Maggie Smith), has had but one melancholy tutor: her husband. He is an alcoholic brute who keeps her in the country when her only heaven is London. As the chase...
...totally unknown to the world. He died at 64 in France last year, after enjoying a muffled underground explosion of fame. Cosmos won the $20,000 International Prize for Literature. It is an achingly attenuated suspense story -except that it turns out that there is no object to the chase, no rich cache of contraband drugs, no key diplomatic documents and no blondes. Just a hanged sparrow, a hanged cat, a mysterious bit of wood suspended in a shed and, finally, a hanged man whose death is as meaningless...
...girl complains about her absent boy friend, "but- the Ashes."* The urn is recovered, but not before Auntie's servant (and lover), an enterprising Sierra Leone black named Wordsworth, has emptied Mother out and replaced her with some hot pot. The police get into the act and the chase runs from London to Paris to Istanbul, and finally to Paraguay. Greene is not only putting the reader on. He is putting himself on. We are back in The Orient Express (Greene's fourth novel), but an Orient Express without the Conrad Veidt monocles or the concupiscent dancers...
Nwafor has collected more than 500 signatures from the University. He expects to continue his efforts throughout the week. Signers include Dean May; Chase N., Peterson '52, dean of Admissions; Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban "Government, and Ewart G. Guinier 33, chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies...
Ordinarily, David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank and a centimillionaire in his own right, would expect to have no trouble at all negotiating a loan from his friendly neighborhood banker. Or so it was assumed in 1967 when Rockefeller and a group of associates privately embarked on a plan to build "Rockefeller Center West," a $150 million redevelopment project in downtown San Francisco. Last week Rockefeller notified the city that he had been unable to raise enough money to begin work on the nucleus of the project, a $30 million, 16-story hotel. At an interest rate...