Word: fining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NADAS -- Harvard Crimson; RGA Representative (1965-67); Major: Fine Arts...
...Count's living theatre works just fine until the inevitable ingenue (Ellen Endicott-Jones) upsets all the artificial relationships. Anouilh never has time to exploit The Rehearsal's central conceit for he soon finds himself struggling to protect his ingenue from the cynics that surround her. Hero, the Count's alcoholic friend, takes over and the play sloshes forward lugubriously. Humbert Allen Astredo delineates his drunkenness with sensitivity, but there's just so much Anouilh packed into his long monologues, that he can't help but become tiresome...
Financial Fine Point. Democrat Unruh dismissed the plan as a "fraud" on the ground that all of the surplus?due partly to Reagan-imposed economies, partly to an inflationary increase in revenues?will be on hand at the end of the current fiscal year (June 30). Whether or not that should entitle taxpayers to collect it on this year's tax returns (filing deadline: April 15) may be a fine point of finance, but Unruh was the first to admit that it mattered a great deal politically. "He has no right," he objected, "to keep it in the state treasury...
...escape and adventure. From Huckleberry Finn to On the Road, the characters in such stories yearn for joyful freedom; their picaresque progress becomes a disapproving comment on the society they are trying to flee. Forced back into confrontation with that society-as the main characters in Irving's fine first novel are-they tend to dream up quixotic schemes for drastically revising the world they hoped to reject. In this case, the reform involves an inspired plan to liberate all the animals in Vienna's Hietzinger...
...sure that the East House people see the raffle as a big joke--and that's fine," Miss Lieberman said...