Word: firm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time: it can wed a present audience to a past play and make them live in timeless harmony. It is also an honor scroll of what makes a repertory group outstanding: fluid ensemble work, resourceful acting, thoughtful direction, intuitive dramatic taste, a sense of purpose and style, a firm guiding intelligence and a zestfulness of spirit. Currently making its first Western Hemisphere appearance with a Canadian tour, the troupe presents three classics from two centuries: Strindberg's Dance of Death and Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear (early 20th) and Congreve's Love for Love...
...complain that Government has got into a situation. It's another to keep repeating it all your life. In an ideal society, I'd be against compulsory arbitration; yet I think people are a bore who create a theology around private enterprise." It has been a firm conservative tenet that the state must be kept as limited as possible. Yet that belief has run smack into the conservative demand to fight the cold war as vigorously as possible. "Today, as never before," concedes Buckley, "the state is the necessary instrument of our proximate deliverance...
...prompted 26-year-old Lawrence Rosenthal to set up shop as a Manhattan investment banker. Six years later, at a ripe old 32, Rosenthal is a multimillionaire, and his L. M. Rosenthal & Co. has become a phenomenon in the clubby world of investment banking that is dominated by venerable firms led by partners who are often well into their 70s. The average age of Rosenthal's six top executives is 31, and the firm's floor trader at the New York Stock Exchange is a mere...
...Faculty should outline a firm policy of dealing with civil disobedience. Students who engage in such protest agree to accept the consequence of their act; the University should spell out clearly what the consequence will be. Demonstrations on campus that infringe on the basic rights of others should be tolerated as long as tolerance is possible. When, in the considered judgment of University officials, action must be taken, demonstrators should be requested to move or face an automatic punishment. That punishment should be probation...
...those who transgress basic rights may have to be met--at some point--with firm action. Civil disobedience with no penalty is meaningless, and the University has an obligation to all of its members to deter thoughtless behavior...