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NOT UNTIL THE '30's did American theater begin to come into its own, freed from the trappings of burlesque and tinny melodrama by a rising generation of playwrights with something to say about America, not just about the commonplace, tired excuses for dramatic themes that until then were the...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: A Period Piece | 7/21/1978 | See Source »

THE STAGING is limited by the fact that the stage itself measures about six feet by 15 feet--not much room, but in this cabaret set-up it hardly matters. Three doors provide the set, but while the look of the show is simple, the numbers are not, for Porter...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Perfect Porter | 7/18/1978 | See Source »

Old fans and young statisticians can recall what happened in the years between Pearl Harbor and V-J day. William Mead's vision is less personal and more anecdotal. In this delightful, ram bling history, the St. Louis-raised journalist sees wartime baseball in its unique social context. To...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oddball | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

At the end of the 16th century there was virtually no contact at all between Japan and Europe. Yet by one of the odd coincidences of history, art began to move in a similar direction in both places at the same moment: there was a slow shift from high religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Figures on the Wide Screen | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

ONE OF THE MOST delightful impressions Harvard's pre-freshmen get from their admissions booklets is that they are about to join Pirsig's "real" university--that they are about to start to enrich the collective heritage of reason. It seems that, when they arrive in September, they will be...

Author: By Tom M. Levenson, | Title: Counter-Revolution at Harvard | 5/16/1978 | See Source »

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