Word: defunction
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...Workshop Boston ( Riot, Tribe, Creation ) has had difficulty in getting through Boston's red tape, but it appears that everyone has been paid off now and Headplay is showing twice a night Thursday through Sunday. The Workshop is designed for "environmental and experimental" theater, housed, ironically enough in a defunct flower market. The "stage" is a large room with cushions clumped about for the audience. Barbara Linden and author Reichman, who directed the play, have used this informal atmosphere to advantage. The action takes place on low platforms in the corners, in and around the audience, emphasizing the ties between...
...group, whose membership includes radical graduate students and former members of the now defunct November Action Coalition, is stressing the importance of relating radical issues to one another, Amy C. Brodkey '71 explained...
...radical groups are largely splintered or defunct, their leadership out of school or underground. Most campus papers that were once mouthpieces for the movement have reverted to more dispassionate journalism. Others, like the Harvard Crimson, do not bother with editorials any more. The most visible political group at Dartmouth is a chapter of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom; it numbers about 15 members. Even women do not seem to care much for their liberation. A recent poll conducted by the University of Washington's campus paper produced the startling conclusion that those who wanted less news about Women...
Even during the Great Depression, none of Houston's banks failed. Last month, however, the queues began forming each day before dawn outside the defunct Sharpstown State Bank as depositors applied for payouts from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The agency was making good on accounts -but only up to $20,000 each. About $16 million seemed, for the time being, lost to depositors...
...Loeb, Rhoades & Co., Erpf was the driving force behind what is now the $183 million Metromedia organization, planned the expansion of Crowell-Collier that ballooned sales from $29 million to $220 million in a decade, made the financial arrangements for the transition of the Sunday supplement from the defunct New York Herald Tribune into New York magazine. Well known as an art patron, his own collection ranged from ancient Chinese snuff bottles to avant-garde moderns; one of his latest projects was the construction of a 1,680-ft. stone maze ("a symbol in a world that doesn...