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Wacholder (Id?) tries various methods of getting rid of Wurz (Superego?): threatening letters, "nerve foam," a mass meeting to declare Wurz's nonexistence. Despite his increasing terror, Wurz refuses to leave. Eventually, he is turned into a domesticated animal by his wife and homosexual sons; Wacholder digs a hole in the sand and buries himself. Whether this symbolizes the end of the world, the decline of the West, or simply the end of the play, it comes as a relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Ergo | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...settled onto the foam couch in the Winthrop House Senior Common Room, he whipped out a four-page mimeographed pamhplet entitled "Notes on Poetry...

Author: By Elizabeth P. Nadas, | Title: Richard Eberhart | 3/5/1968 | See Source »

Once settled in carpeted luxury on the extrawide, foam-cushioned seats, spectators were treated to views unencumbered by pillars, thanks to the structure's 407-ft., rafter-free span that is suspended by taut cables resembling the spokes of a bicycle wheel. With the Forum's time already booked for 200 days in 1968, Cooke could finally relax, proclaim his new sports palace "a timeless place, something a man can be proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: ARENAS: Better Break for the Fans | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

...York," he said while we sifted through his myriad news clippings. He showed me letters of congratulations from John Lindsay and Jacob Javits after his successful challenge of New York's birth control laws, and his copies of letters from EMKO Pharmaceutical Company, manufacturer of a contraceptive foam, which showed he was their "Eastern clinical director...

Author: By John Killilea, | Title: Time Runs Out for William Baird | 10/23/1967 | See Source »

...last April, he described and exhibited contraceptives to a packed student audience and distributed tubes of EMKO foam to three coeds. That led to his conviction last week in Suffolk Superior Court on two counts--of showing and of disseminating contraceptive devices. The case is being appealed to the Massachusetts Supreme Court, and though it may not come up until next spring, Baird already has a plan for his defense ready...

Author: By John Killilea, | Title: Time Runs Out for William Baird | 10/23/1967 | See Source »

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