Word: harolds
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...level that can be universally regarded as catastrophic, his bill has little chance of passage. Congress voted last summer to keep undergraduate deferments in the face of both the President's Draft Commission's recommendation to abolish them as well as the statement of U.S. Commissioner of Education, Harold Howe, that he considered them "unjustified." The current American dream is to send one's sons to college, and -- barring a major escalation of the Vietnam war -- there is no reason to believe that Congress will be any more willing to smash the voters' dream next year...
...BIRTHDAY PARTY, by Harold Pinter. A man whose birthday it is not finds himself the guest of honor at its celebration and behaves as if he were a corpse at his own wake. Which well might be the case. The early Pinter puzzler is brought to the Broadway stage with American actors who often pay more attention to their accents than to their performances...
...TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO and THE STRONG BREED, by African Playwright Wole Soyinka, introduce two aspects of Nigerian life to Manhattan audiences. In the first play, Harold Scott is a devil of a "prophet" as he gathers his "flock" on the beaches. In the second, Scott gives a taut interpretation of a voluntary victim of tribal sacrifices...
Sooner or later the TV watcher who tunes in on a talk show is likely to decide that he could make more stimulating conversation himself. Harold Greenwood of Minneapolis is no exception-except that he decided to prove the thesis by buying two minutes of air time each week (at $102 a minute) and producing a show with himself as star...
...Thank you very much, Harold," replied the chairman of the House Banking Committee. "I'm certainly glad to know you better 'cause I know we have a lot in common." With that, Patman was off and talking...