Word: elder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...script's inadequacies don't detract much from Ceremonies's poignancy. Russell's elder son challenges Adele, who disapproves of the illicit whiskey business...
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men is by Lonne Elder, a black playwright who's supposed to be one of the most promising playwrights around--at least, this play was very well received in New York a few years back. I haven't seen it or read it, though, so I can't say for sure. This weekend and next, 7:30 at the Loeb Ex, where things are always free but you sometimes need tickets in advance...
...Vietnam with simplicity, dignity, or unity. He saw almost from the beginning that the U.S. government did not tell the whole truth about Vietnam, yet he did not lead American journalists in attacking the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. He felt he had a role to play--as journalism's elder statesman and voice of moderation. He saw "a great nation" fighting someone else's war, but he gave the great nation the benefit of the doubt: he wanted more information before making a judgment...
...drive a truck, finally returned, and was a 22-year-old senior when he ran for the Cambridge city council. Before doing so, he announced his intention to his father, who had once served on the council. "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree," replied the elder O'Neill, not at all displeased...
...rare occasions, the past can be not only recalled but recaptured. Exactly 100 years ago next week, the elder daughter of Horace Greeley, 19th century journalistic war horse and founder-publisher of the New York Tribune, filled a ten-inch-square brass box with quaint mementos of her era and saw the box sealed within the cornerstone of the Tribune's new headquarters in Lower Manhattan. When that building was demolished in 1968, the time capsule was found and kept by the wrecker until late last year, when he brought it to a dealer to sell. The solid brass...