Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until the strike, there were 34 walkers on Broadway earning a total of $10,000 a week. Eighteen months ago, when Producer Hal Prince brought Candide to Broadway, he asked the union if he could use only 13 musicians. It insisted on 25 players, costing Prince an additional $180,960 a year. Despite Candide's success, the show is still in the red. Complains Prince: "If I didn't have to pay the extra musicians, I would have paid back my investors. They would have come into new shows. As it is, I have lost...
...Eighteen months after the publication of his book on slavery, "Time on the Cross," the controversy surrounding Robert W. Fogel, Burbank Professor of Political Economy and professor of History, has not died down. Recent weeks have even seen a distinct heating up of the scholarly polemic...
...girls to lose weight. He basically ignored us unless we were exceptionally good-looking. You have enough problems freshman year without that." A freshwoman who lived in a mixed entry conceded that her proctor had been a nice guy, but a complete loser when it came to dealing with eighteen-year-old women. "He was very popular with the guys in the dorm--mainly, I think, because they were flattered to drink beer and play touch football with a 28-year-old grad student. All he could manage to say to us women were things like, 'How's your boyfriend...
...Egypt, the situation could be ominous-and there is a disturbing precedent. In May 1967, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser demanded a similar pullout of U.N. forces for their own safety in the face of "Israeli aggression" and Egyptian defensive moves. The late Secretary-General U Thant complied. Eighteen days later, the Six-Day War erupted. The Israelis were betting that Cairo would back down, partly because of fail-safe ambiguities in Fahmy's letter, partly because they are convinced that Egypt is not remotely prepared for another war. Jerusalem even suspected that Fahmy was a straw man setting...
...about eighteen when my great uncle Jake took the dinner hours to describe how he and a new partner had bought a street of slum houses in downtown New York He. Jake, during a lunch break in the signing of the partnership, removed all the toilet seats from the buildings and sold them for fifty dollars. But, asked my mother's cousin, what will the poor people who live there do without toilet seats? "Let us," said Jake, "approach your question in a practical manner. I ask you to accompany me now to the bathroom, where I will explode...