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Director Edwin Sherin has elicited a remarkable set of performances from his fourteen main characters, with only two exceptions. Lee Richardson's Undershaft is best of all-forceful and unshakeable from start to finish. (And he really plays the prescribed tune from Doninetti's Lucia on a trombone). Lady Brit is his separated wife, a woman given to bossing and tossing off epigrams--clearly modeled on Lady Bracknell in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, written a decade earlier. Jan Miner, in a performance that brings to mind Jessica Tandy, is doing in this role far and away...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Lovers Lag, Octavius Dazzles in 'Antony' | 7/11/1972 | See Source »

Brown, along with Cornell, is the squad to beat in the Ivy League this season. Fourteen Bruin lettermen have returned from last year's 11-3 team, which was the best in the school's history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickmen Will Face Brown As Harvard Seeks an Upset | 4/22/1972 | See Source »

...will select men for the eight-cared heavyweight boast, for the four-with-coxswain, and two alternates. The fourteen rowers will have about seven weeks to train together in preparation for the late summer Olympics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parker Named Olympic Crew Coach | 4/21/1972 | See Source »

Robin Scott Wilson's "Gone Fishin'" projects an incredible mingling of cold war and black power ideologies. No classic science fiction fan could do anything but gape and laugh at a hero who is described as a fourteen-year old German Negro serving the Americans as an anti-Soviet, telepathic...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: The Present Future | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

...year, in a belated gesture, the Pulitzer Prize journalism jurors will include women for the first time-six of them out of 45. Two years ago, Sigma Delta Chi, the 63-year-old national journalism society, invited women to join, and so far about 3,000 have signed on. Fourteen months later the National Press Club in Washington, after much external protest and internal agonizing, admitted women for the first time since the club was founded in 1908. But the Gridiron Club, which fancies itself the most distinguished assemblage of journalists in the nation, has wavered only ever so slightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Situation Report | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

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