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Blau admits that Happy Days, with its two characters and mound of earth, is a difficult and ambitious play, more ambitious than large productions which pretend to encompass a "great event." For Beckett and Blau wish to do nothing less than tell the truth about the human condition, as they see it, and to tell it obliquely, comically, and ironically-which is perhaps the only way it can be told. They also wish to close the gaps between the actors and the play and between the audience and the dramatic production. In the few places where they fail, the audience...
This term, the men felt, is too limited to apply to a committee on biochemistry, which will encompass many biochemical problems other than...
...going to improve our situation by cutting each other up," said Iowa's Senator Jack Miller. Washington's Governor-elect Daniel J. Evans, a 39-year-old engineer who upset two-term Democrat Albert Resellini, urged the party to "reconstruct our framework in terms that will encompass a variety of opinion." Former Vice President Richard Nixon, who had reinstituted himself as the favorite target of some cartoonists by attacks on his fellow moderate Nelson Rockefeller, now called for a centrist leadership that would make enough room for both liberals and conservatives...
...three years, Show, a $1-a-copy monthly addressed to the performing arts, has absorbed USA1 (an illustrated monthly newsmagazine) and Show Business Illustrated (a rival put out by Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner), expanded its formula to encompass culture in general, from travel to politics, and in the process grandly lost $8,000,000. Since Show's publisher is A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, the red ink was not too significant. But with circulation at 200,000 and still shy of the break-even point, Hartford last week decided to hand over Show to Playbill, Inc. for a price...
...last week's meeting, Kenneth Guscott, president of the Boston branch of the National Association of Colored People, urged that the group be made up of both Negroes and whites. "It should encompass all the leaders of the community. Then if anything should happen, the police can call upon responsible citizens for aid. We do not want another Harlem," he said...