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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry Livings. This English import is a gorgeous farce with a stubbornly heroic anti-hero whom no machine, man or woman can tame. In a perfect cast, Dustin Hoffman is pluperfect...
Chosen to head the new theatre was Robert H. Chapman, then associate professor of English. Chapman had come to Harvard on a crest of popularity -- the adaptation he co-authored of Billy Budd was an immense critical success off-Broadway. While the merits of his anti-McCarthy play The General were hotly debated, it was anti-McCarthy, and its production at Harvard generated an aura of romantivism about its author...
...speaks English well, but with a thick Russian accent. He smokes a great deal (a habit he acquired at 15 when jailed for spreading anti-Czarist propaganda), holding his cigarettes in the European manner -- between thumb and index finger with palm toward the mouth...
...first five weeks after its publication, the Random House Dictionary of the English Language (TIME, Sept. 30) sold more than 250,000 copies, began to appear on the bestseller lists, and is still going at a lively clip. At a time when the bestsellers tend to be largely composed of sexy stuff, this is indeed a phenomenal showing...
This year's Let's Go, will be about 80 pages longer than the 1965 edition will include several new features, Tobias said. The iron curtain countries will be included for the first time, as well as an eight page survey of English pubs...