Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People who are drifting and discontented can find instant comradeship and a sense of self-worth in a cult. Says Dean Kelley, director of religious liberty for the National Council of Churches: "Adolescents who have been ignored by their families and their peers find themselves the center of attention of an attractive group of young people who spend hours talking and working with them." This is not just an American phenomenon. Similar groups have sprung up in Western Europe and Japan. Writes Byong-Suh Kim, chairman of the sociology department at New Jersey's Montclair College: "Japanese society...
...want to serve as the Administration's major jawboner or supervise the day-to-day monitoring of wages and prices. He prefers to leave the handling of 7% wage guidelines and the figuring out of profit margins to Barry Bosworth, the Council on Wage and Price Stability director, another academic who is temperamentally unsuited for the job. Instead, Kahn sees his role as an inflation ombudsman. He says that he wants to restrain Government activities that foster inflation. Kahn plans on cutting regulation, loosening up building codes, freeing land use and promoting more competition among public utilities...
That is what the Chicago production failed to do. Adam and Eve, sung by Baritone William Stone and Soprano Ellen Shade, and Satan, Bass-Baritone Peter Van Ginkel, stumbled about in semidarkness. There seemed to be a ban on imaginative staging. Only twelve days before the premiere, the director, Virginio Puecher, resigned under pressure. "He wanted to do too much movement," said Penderecki. "I think that the drama should be in the music...
...ngerknaben choirs. Three out of the four are usually touring abroad; one will be in New York City next month. But the silence will shatter a tradition that goes back to 1498, when Emperor Maximilian founded the group. Amending the legislation will take time. Says Choir Director Walter Tautschnig: "I have spent Christmas at the Hofburg chapel for almost 50 years, from choirboy to director. It almost breaks my heart to miss...
Having played Dracula on Broadway, Actor Frank Langella is now in Cornwall, sinking his teeth into the same role for a film. Although the movie will have a different script, approach, director, cast and special effects, Langella wants to maintain his conception of the role of the sanguineous count. Dracula, he feels, has been misunderstood. "I don't play him as a hair-raising ghoul," says Langella. "He is a nobleman, an elegant man, with a very difficult problem...