Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THEA MUSGRAVE, 47, has written chamber music, ballet and opera. "Music is a human art, not a sexual one," she says. "Sex is no more important than eye color." When Britain's Musgrave talks about "space music," she is not referring to synthetic sci-fi sounds but to compositions in which the players are directed to move about the concert hall...
...accountant, he got his first break when he answered a newspaper ad placed by a Danish businessman whose English companies were struggling. Slater straightened them out and moved on, eventually becoming the right-hand man of Lord Stokes, then head of Leyland Motors. There Slater developed a keen eye for companies whose assets were worth more than the value of their issued stock...
While last week's statistics were providing new proof of the strength of the recovery, Congress began to make decisions on taxes and the budget with an eye toward where the economy will be in 1976. The House Budget and Ways and Means committees voted in effect to reject President Ford's proposal for a $28 billion tax cut starting Jan. 1 and a $395 billion ceiling on spending for fiscal 1977. Since the tax cuts would take effect before any spending hold-down, Ford's plan would give the economy a massive new stimulus early next...
...tragedy, most of the time it flutters droopily at the level of stale melodrama. If there's little genuine humor here, there's even less heartfelt agony. Even the climactic pre-castration scene, replete with lines like "Is it so reprehensible to be human?" and "I pluck out the eye that offends me" is so overdone it falls completely flat. Ralph Martin, as Hasty, the tutor, doesn't help matters any by giving a generally lackluster performance that makes his sudden access of emotion in this sequence seem violently out of place. Bland and mechanical throughout most of the play...
...says, "having justified the cause, will you shrink back from the effect?" If the effect of Loeb attempts to breathe life into second rate plays is to produce more debacles like this one, a little shrinking back, not to mention a plucking out of the offending eye, might not be such a bad idea...