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Although the singing doesn't always warrant the effort, special credit should go to Paul Schommer's orchestra for accomplishing the difficult feat of keeping the music at the right volume. Choreographer Ricardo and those four charcoal grey executives a glorious sense of the absurd, prancing around the stage in the Act One showstopper: "Where Do You Take a Girl...

Author: By Kathy Garrett, | Title: Promising Promises Unfulfilled | 11/3/1973 | See Source »

...point that crossing a canal was simple. On Oct. 6, the only difference was that across this canal was the real enemy." Within 72 hours, the Egyptians managed to move more than 70,000 troops and an estimated 500 to 700 tanks to the eastern bank-a remarkable logistical feat by any military standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONFLICT: Arabs v. Israelis in a Suez Showdown | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

...them to suit myself, hoping they will also suit the audience." As on film, so in the environments: Disney was nothing if not an expressionist, and he built the old Magic Kingdom in Anaheim, Calif., and the new one in Orlando to please himself. Disney World is a pure feat of self-projection in which neurosis and imagination are rendered equally concrete. One instinctive response is to turn away from Disney. After all, the promotional goo about magic, warmth and wonder that has been ladled over him and his works in the past 20 years would make even Bambi puke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Disney: Mousebrow to Highbrow | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...South American summer circuit usually draws many of the top skiers in the world and this year five of the skiers were classified as "zero skiers." A zero skier must have won at least two World Cup competitions, a feat which has been accomplished by less than ten skiers currently in world amateur competition...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: Three Harvard Skiers Almost Trapped in Chile | 10/3/1973 | See Source »

Roth's feat of scholarship and imagination is an excellent place to begin Letters to Felice, now published for the first time in English, Kafka's confessional correspondence to the nice Jewish secretary from Berlin who from 1912 to 1917 was twice his fiancée but never his bride. Erich Heller's introduction, though heavily written and somewhat abstract, does pinpoint Kafka's "moral hypochondria ... a man ready to feel guiltily responsible for what he knows to be a flaw in the order of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Post Office | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

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