Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAZA SUITE. Neil Simon makes three bids to provide amusement and, ably assisted by Director Mike Nichols and Actors Maureen Stapleton and E. G. Marshall, scores a grand slam...
...State Comptroller General James Bentley, renounced their Democratic credentials and joined the Republicans. There is speculation in Atlanta that if Nixon wins, Talmadge himself may follow them. At the same time, many Negroes and Mexican Americans who once supported Robert Kennedy may sit out the election. Says Theodore Brown, director of the American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa: "Most blacks are saying, 'This is not our year; there's nothing out there...
...majority, by extending their tourist visas, by seeking student or work permits, or simply by staying put, are postponing a final decision. They are referred to by their host countries in such vague terms as "tourists on extended vacation" and "travelers living in self-imposed semi-exile." Said Film Director Ivan Passer, visiting New York: "In Hungary, they didn't close the border until three months after the tanks came in. A month after that, thousands of people disappeared"-into prisons...
...personal anguish, the Czechoslovaks separated from home and family by the invasion have little in common with the usual refugees from other Communist lands and crises. They are, by and large, skilled, well educated and often relatively well off. A son of Karel Ancerl, who has been named musical director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for its next three seasons, escaped across the border in his family's Mercedes-Benz 250 SL. In Austria, many have loaded up their boxy Skodas for sightseeing tours of the Alps while they await developments in Prague. In London and Paris, large groups...
...actor and a director are the play's most impressive assets. In the central role, Donald Pleasence gives a performance of atomic power and blinding virtuosity; Harold Pinter directorially chills the stage to doom temperature. The very first scene bursts on the playgoer with somber eclat. In an elegant private chapel, dim as a catacomb, a finger of light rests on Pleasence as he kneels rapt in prayer. The Verdi Requiem saturates the air like incense. Suddenly, the stage is ablaze with light, louvers are turning, and the backdrop becomes a penthouse view of Manhattan's skyscrapers...