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Died. Lili Darvas, 72, celebrated Hungarian-American actress; after a brief illness; in Manhattan. Four years after her 1921 stage debut in Budapest, Darvas was discovered by Max Reinhardt, then Europe's foremost director...
Enosis or Taksim. Ecevit's sudden popularity could quickly sour after the euphoria of the successful invasion dissipated in the face of problems requiring solution. Foremost among them was how to bring peace to Cyprus short of stationing a standing army there. No one believes that Greek Cypriots would accept union with Turkey or rule by a Turkish Cypriot. One solution might be to have a Greek moderate acceptable to both island communities take over the presidency, or even have Makarios return. Another, less likely possibility is the old idea of double enosis-or taksim, in Turkish-under which...
...yachting after the last America's Cup races in 1970. No matter that aluminum-hull boats had never competed in yachting's most prestigious international competition. Designers were convinced that the lightweight metal vessels would be speedier and cheaper to build. Olin Stephens, the world's foremost yacht designer, who conceived three of the last five Cup winners, created Courageous...
...seemed appropriate to someone to select a work dating from 1955, the year the AST opened. The choice fell on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams, who is, along with Arthur Miller, generally considered one of the two foremost native dramatists of our time...
...same year that Clifford Odet's Awake and Sing! was first produced in New York, the author said he wrote the play because, "I was sore at my whole life." Odets, perhaps the foremost American leftist playwright of the thirties, blends this rebellious anger masterfully with his social concerns in the tragicomedy of a family struggling "for life amidst petty conditions" during the hard times of the Depression...