Word: feuer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stilted and somber in their dealings with others. Today's less cruel but still existing repression, says Princeton Historian James Billington, "breeds exasperation and contempt more than terror." But if the Russian is somewhat more open now, he is still burdened by what University of Toronto Sociologist Lewis Feuer calls "socialist pessimism": the feeling that frustration, pain and deprivation are in the nature of things and that nothing can be done about them. This attitude, conditioned by the endless bureaucracy and the regimentation of life, may be partly responsible for Russia's declining birth rate...
...Still, Feuer, who recently spent half a year in Russia doing research, believes that another philosophy is struggling to emerge. Freed of the terror, encouraged by the thought that liberalization may continue, unburdened of at least some of the Marxist mythology, today's Russia is witnessing the gradual reassertion of "the values of individualism, of questioning, of the religious spirit, of the ethical personality, of human relations transcending party comradeship." It is difficult to guess just how far the Kremlin will allow this trend to go. But its existence nonetheless proves that the Russian character has survived Communism with...
...chow arias and cantatas of smoke. "We wanted a normal life," says Joe, "children and a home. We wanted to try to live like other people do, and that is what we've done." They make a nice, normal $250,000 a year. Broadway Producers Cy Feuer and Ernie Martin, hearing Jamie's voice, once nibbled in her direction but were told that she was out of their financial class...
...Simon has become Broadway's leading comedy writer. His Come Blow Your Horn opened on Broadway in 1961, ran for 85 weeks, and has now been metamorphosed into a Frank Sinatra movie. Last year, commissioned by Producers Cy Feuer and Ernie Martin to turn Patrick Dennis' Little Me into a musical, Simon got a brainflash, wrote all seven of the major male roles for Sid Caesar, creating one of the season's better box-office draws...
...Believe in You sequence, he pops into the theater at 10:39, and if anything is slipshod. Burrows will be crashing around backstage making a disturbance at 11:15, perhaps calling for a morning rehearsal. Similar sneak visits are frequently made by Choreographer Bob Fosse, Producers Cy Feuer and Ernie Martin. Says Pressagent Merle Debuskey: "It's like Big Brother...