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Last year, the thespians of Dunster House created something of a success de scandale out of a musical comedy version of the life of Christ entitled The Greatest Musical Ever Sung: this year they've turned to the slightly less miraculous career of Richard Milhous Nixon in order to churn out a sequel. However, a good deal of the check has disappeared in making the transition from the purportedly profane to the presumably partisan. Nixon!, exclamation point or no exclamation point, is certainly nothing to write your home congressman about...
...LAND. Each day residents of New York City churn out 23,000 tons of garbage. Each day garbage men burn it in incinerators located around the city or dump it as landfill in swamps and other areas within the city's five boroughs. But incineration adds to New York's air pollution, and landfill areas are rapidly vanishing. What to do with the daily mountain of garbage? Treat it, answers a company called Ecology, Inc., and then sell the end product...
...forced to fold. For their part, the mutual-fund men contend that there is more at stake than the row over commissions. They say that the brokers' entry into the mutual-fund business raises grave questions of conflict of interest. One reason: brokers may be tempted to "churn" the portfolios of their own mutual funds-that is, buy and sell excessively in order to earn commissions. Last week's move by Dreyfus is not so much aimed at compelling the exchange to allow mutual funds to go into the brokerage business, as forcing the brokerages...
Historically, man's need to respond to seemingly irrelevant material was a tremendous adaptive advantage because it led to discoveries of quantitatively better ways to live. This advantage still exists and functions better in individuals than in institutions which may churn our these discoveries faster. The greatest value of such discoveries is in the making of them. As improvements, they hardly affect the quality of life. Moreover an institution making a collective discovery does not respond with joy of the charming human sort. The occasional incidents of one man's joy of discovery are perhaps more important to the quality...
...Nicholson's first try for an acting job, and it was 14 years before he was needed that badly. Then, as the one articulate, genuinely comic character in Easy Rider, Nicholson became a leading participant in the upheaval that has caused Hollywood, for better or for worse, to churn out an endless series of "relevant," youth-oriented little movies. The role won him the New York Film Critics' Award, an Academy Award nomination and a leading role in Director Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge. In the meantime he is appearing in Five Easy Pieces in a starring role...