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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Going to Manhattan's Roundabout Theater in the decade of its existence has always had the anticipatory excitement of going on an archaeological dig. You can usually count on a dramatic find, something that no other theater group is likely to be doing. In recent seasons, the Roundabout's venturesome founders, Gene Feist and Michael Fried, have offered playgoers a delectable comedy of sexual theatrics, Molnar's The Play's the Thing; Barrie's salute to the canny primacy of the female, What Every Woman Knows; and a world première of James Joyce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Wistful Charmer | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...only thing I ever really worked hard at, the only thing I always knew wasn't going to be given to me because I went to such-and-such a school. If I make it, I'll make it on my own--if anything, my background will count against...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: In Another League Now | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...only do that by providing people with a service they want at a price they are willing to pay. If it raises its prices, a private firm faces the threat of competition from other firms. None of this is true of the postal service, which can count on Congressional subsidies to make up any losses, and which is protected from competition--in first-class mail by a legal prohibition of private competition, and in second-, third-, and fourth-class mail by laws against using mailboxes. In the only area in which relatively unfettered private competition is permitted--parcel post--USPS...

Author: By Stephen J. Chapman, | Title: Ducking the Punch | 1/16/1976 | See Source »

There is an earnest, greedy producer, Oscar (Sam Levene), with a treacherous streak of total affection for the Cavendishes. And that's not the end of it, by half. In 1927 they did not have to count the cast. A Royal Family is a love letter to the theater and those who, contrary to all sound reason, persist in loving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Magnificent Obsession | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...holiday hiatus with a 3-2-1 record. But of the two losses, the first one, 9-7 to Notre Dame, occurred in the first game of the trip out west when it was still 1975, and the second, 4-3 to the U.S. Olympic team, doesn't count in the record anyway...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Icemen, Cagers Journey Far and Wide | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

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