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...Group Theater in 1931 to serve as an alternative to Broadway's commercial offerings; for ten years it provided a forum for playwrights like Clifford Odets and William Saroyan, introduced to the American stage the Stanislavsky Method of acting, and nourished such actors as Lee Strasberg, John Garfield, Cheryl Crawford, Lee J. Cobb and Stella Adler (Clurman's first wife). As a drama critic since the late 1940s, mostly for the Nation, he drew on enormous theatrical erudition, a prodigious memory and an insatiable delight in the arts. "I disapprove of much," he once said, "but I enjoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 22, 1980 | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

...wish had never dramatized these recent events from his life. The plot, no matter how true, still produces one of Simon's most uninteresting relationships. And we've come to expect quite a bit from the creator of Oscar and Felix, and, more recently, the wonderful role of Elliot Garfield in The Goodbye Girl...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: One Chapter Was Plenty | 1/11/1980 | See Source »

...MORE THAN 100 years now, They've been tryping to puch this one through Congress. Way back in 1876, when he was just a representive from Ohio, James A. Garfield introduced a bill to create a separate Department of Education. Although the proposal has changed a bit over the last few decades, the message is still the same: Educational issues are being buried in the federal bureaucracy, and if it's to be taken seriously, education must be given its own special home on the banks of the Potomac...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: No More DOE's | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

...March 1867, James A. Garfield, then a Congressman from Ohio, introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to create a United States Department of Education--an organ without Cabinet-level status. For the next 110 years and more, proposals to establish such a department have burst upon Congress sporadically. From 1908 to 1951, more than 50 pieces of legislation seeking to establish an education department floated through the Russell, Longworth and Rayburn Congressional office buildings; however, none survived beyond the committee stage. Legislation introduced in the 95th Congress met a similar fate. Meanwhile, education has become an orphan child...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Where to Put The 'E' In HEW? | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...suit charges the MBTA with substantially deviating from the original Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which had not considered the removal of 90 per cent of the dirt for the Harvard-Porter Square tunnel from the hole on Garfield St. The suit demands that the MBTA prepare a new report...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: City, Citizens File Suit to Halt Red Line Construction, Charge MBTA With Violation of Three Federal Statutes | 4/11/1979 | See Source »

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