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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Versatile Sola Mahoney leads both the triple jumpers and long jumpers. Bennett Midlo, Ying Dat Ho and freshman basketball ace Robert Taylor round out the long jumping crew, while Bruce Brooks backs Mahoney in the triple jump...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Tracksters Sprint and Spring Into Action | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

...only that "various ways and possibilities for achieving peace" had been discussed and that the three men would meet again soon in Alexandria. The conversations between Sadat and Peres were strictly exploratory, since the Labor Party leader is in no position to speak for the Israeli government. Nonetheless, Sa dat and Peres did agree that the Aswan formula, drawn up by President Carter and Sadat last January, would provide an acceptable framework for a peace agreement. Among other things, the formula calls for participation by the Palestinians in determining their own future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: At Least They're Still Talking | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...whole is a peak in the history of the musical. Those who need to be shown why can catch a new production of it at the Barn Theatre in New London, New Hampshire, from July 19 to 31. In the 1927 original, the singing of "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" and "Bill" elevated Helen Morgan to stardom; and it was expressly for her that Kern and Hammerstein wrote Sweet Adeline two years later...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Kern's 'Sweet Adeline' in Bright Revival | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...complaining rejected client. "They just don't hand out money." And the truth must come for the welfare applicant, in the form of notarized letters. A guy who looks like Broderick Crawford, only beaten, pulls forms out of several different pockets, "I can show you so much stuff...dis, dat...I can show you names, red numbers...somethin's awful funny here...doesn't meet...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Watching the Camera | 9/24/1975 | See Source »

Dramatically, Treemonisha calls for a certain amount of forebearance. Its message (improving the lot of the Negro) is treated naively, and its solution (education) is somewhat simplistic. Treemonisha works for an audience of today because Joplin kept his touch light despite heavy use of dialect ("No, dat bag you'se not gwine to buy, 'cause I know de price is high"). His is a fable that James Thurber might have appreciated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Scott Joplin: From Rags to Opera | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

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