Word: cowards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a production of the Hecht-MacArthur war horse about a journalism that never was: The Front Page, starring Robert Ryan. The play whetted the theater audience's appetite for aging stars and graying gags. After it galloped Three Men on a Horse, Our Town with Henry Fonda, Noel Coward's Private Lives, the adventures of the Marx brothers in Minnie's Boys, Helen Hayes and James Stewart in Harvey. Some musical comedies, like 1968's Dames at Sea, were a pastiche of the past, filling off-Broadway with tinkling resonances of Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler. Some took...
...everybody is to be engaged in the struggle for our common salvation, there are no clean hands, there are no innocents, there are no spectators.... Every spectator is a coward or a traitor...
Calley has also developed a mortal fear of accidental death, not for the usual reason but because the world might think he was a coward who took his own life. "If I got killed in my car on the way to Atlanta," he explains, "everyone would think Calley copped out. I had a room in Delmonico's Hotel in New York once with a floor-to-ceiling window. I was afraid to go to sleep at night because I thought I might sleepwalk through one of those 18th-floor windows and everybody would think Calley committed suicide...
There is little doubt that Britain's tax structure has discouraged skilled workers from boosting their earnings by overtime, penalized executives, and driven high-paid artists out of the country -Noel Coward to Switzerland, the Rolling Stones to France, and Peter Sellers to Ireland. While launching the tax reforms, the Conservatives are also taking some painful steps toward making social services more selective. This week the government is ending cheap welfare milk to expectant mothers and preschool children. Increases in school meal prices, prescription fees in the National Health Service, dental charges, fares on the nationalized railways and rents...
Leader and founder of the troupe is Isabelle Standwell, an Englishwoman whose aristocratic manners seem oddly appropriate both to Lady Macbeth and Wilde's Lady Bracknell She also lends her dowager tones to Schubert lieder and such trifles as Nevermore from Noel Coward's Conversation Piece. Her brother Sicnarf, having lived in America, has acquired a Southern accent as well as a rowdy taste in music and poetry; he does the genial turns...