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...fans had feared might die with the dancer. The opening-night program included the serene Canticle for Innocent Comedians, a work inspired by the poetry of St. Francis of Assisi, and last performed in 1953. There were other old favorites, like the 1946 Dark Meadow and the 1947 Errand into the Maze, both symbol-laden ritualistic works, which give the current programs far more the look of Graham retrospectives than was the case in previous Manhattan appearances. From the looks of it all, Martha Graham, a month short of her 75th birthday, is finally reconciled to being a part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Choreographers: From A to B to Z | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

Three Cambridge high-school students are picketing Savenor's Market, 92 Kirkland Street, claiming that Savenor's cheated them out of $280 for their work as errand boys last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Errand Boys Charge Grocer Cheated Them | 2/12/1969 | See Source »

...successful bids in counties where Waugh did not compete-yet it never got a state contract. The defendant companies are studded with Wallace cronies. American Materials & Supply Co., the state's largest supplier last year, has a secretary-treasurer who was a Wallace campaign aide. His driver and errand boy in the 1962 campaign is now an officer of the Wire-grass Construction Co., also named in the suit. The case will probably come to trial in the fall, when it could prove embarrassing to Wallace's presidential aspirations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama: George's Asphalt Jungle | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...their resolution is eminently forgettable, but the circumstances are these: a rich American arrives in Rome to fetch his car-crashed father's body, and finds that his father was with a woman when he died, and that the woman's daughter is in Rome too, on the same errand. You can take it from there, but you don't really have to. A third character--a friendly bisexual Italian parasite--serves as catalyst for most of the play's inaction, and as the subject of almost all its laughs...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Avanti | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...Latitudinarians. At one end of the presidential spectrum are the men whom New York University Political Scientist Louis Koenig calls the "literalists": those who, like Madison and Taft, interpreted their powers narrowly and subscribed to the Whig theory of the President as an errand boy for Congress. At the other end are what Yale Historian John Morton Blum calls the "latitudinarians": those who, like Lincoln and Wilson, gave wide scope to the Constitution's vague charter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Paradox of Power | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

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