Word: extents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whenever a play is revived, it is rewritten, to some extent, by its new audience. What was once vivid may now appear dim. What passed for honest emotion may now be disdained as gluey sentimentality. Each successive age accords authority only to its own brand of vision and sophistication...
...October 15 Moratorium has demonstrated the extent of student support for the peace movement. Ratner said. Now, canvassing and other activities designed to build majority support for ending the war immediately have become most important. he added...
Lindsay probably has as bright a group of advisers, assistants, and program planners as exists in any federal, state, or local bureaucracy today. What is lacking in New York, but to a much lesser extent in Washington, is meaningfully organized economic and social data to begin knowing what optimal policy is and how to implement it, even if it can't yet be achieved because of other institutional constraints...
...required by law), either by downgrading program quality, raising tax rates, or increasing dependence on outside aid. Usually some combination of all three types of adjustment is used, leading to cries of distress from three overlapping groups: public service recipients, City taxpayers, and State (and to a much lesser extent, Federal) taxpayers...
...Romulus deserves attention as being one cut above the average house production both in the seriousness of its intent and in the general success of the execution. Jason Kanter, the director, succeeds to a great extent in managing the unruly elements of the script, and, with the help of Chris Ripman's set, his production ends up being close to the theatrical equivalent of a Roman banquet...