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Shakespeare provided not only Papp's personal lodestone, but the beginning of the Public Theater, which he started in 1953 in a Presbyterian church on East Sixth Street as the Shakespeare Workshop. "It was hard enough to imagine we could get any audience for Shakespeare down there at all...
The F.I.S. believes that the 84-year-old Brundage is out of step with the times. Says F.I.S. President Marc Holder: "Avery no longer wants to listen to reasonable arguments. He just has an idee fixe against skiing as an Olympic sport." Though Brundage rightly charges that the European skiers...
The stars twinkled once again over the dance floor, and haute coutured fundaments warmed the zebra-striped banquettes as Manhattan's El Morocco reopened its doors to the oglers and the ogled. There were plenty of oldtime international set pieces-Paulette Goddard flashing rubies and diamonds, Hope Hampton flashing...
"I've had only one idea in my life?a true idée fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible?the idea of having my own way. 'Control' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I...
That omission was rectified last week with the publication of Amelia Earhart Lives (McGraw-Hill; $7.95). In the book, Novelist Joe Klaas traces the ten-year pursuit of an idée fixe by Joseph Gervais, a former Air Force major. Amelia, they say, was really on a spy mission...