Word: forsaken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official curtain raising: Actor Laurence Olivier, 69, who founded the National Theater Acting Company in 1962, and who appeared onstage to thank "all relevant councils, committees, boards and departments, indeed, Your Majesty's treasury, not to speak of our brother and sister taxpayers." Olivier, who has recently forsaken his own stage career (but not films) after battling a strength sapping muscle disorder, finished his speech by wishing to those who follow, "joy eternal." While the audience, which included Playwrights Eugéne Ionesco and J.B. Priestley, applauded, the trouper then made a low, and justifiably long...
...movies. That may be part of it. But a quick survey of three recent films from abroad also suggests that the revolutions in the European cinema of the early '60s have subsided, the changes they brought have become standardized, and film makers on the Continent have forsaken enterprise for convention...
Other New York staffers have forsaken tennis for the more convenient indoor pursuits of squash, pelota or Ping Pong. But World Writer George Russell, a former Calgary, Alberta, high school badminton doubles champion, cannot convince his colleagues of the exciting nature of that sport. Says he: "Unfortunately, people consider it a pastime for the back lawn. No one believes how cutthroat...
...rented furs. The only enterprising recent musicals have been the work of Bob Fosse; the movie Cabaret and, on Broadway, Chicago abound in the same spunk and brash vi tality eulogized in That's Entertainment. Fosse is a brilliantly low-down spirit, an innovator, but he too has forsaken movie musicals for more serious undertakings, like Lenny...
...efforts of Griffin, Kelley and Bohn have not been totally forsaken in this period of new spiritualism. The board of the Harvard-Radcliffe Student Center, still angry over Madeiros' actions, felt it was necessary to appoint a minister who would supplement the Cardinal's appointments and thus avoid a complete change in the nature of the ministry. To this end Mary Roodkowsky, a degree candidate at the Divinity School, was named last spring as a lay chaplain...