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Several exceptions happen to be senior administrators at Harvard and M.I.T. Either their normal responsibilities or their normal kindness led them to return calls and actually to do what they said they would. Two Very Important Professors have been unfailingly kind, and several others have paused in their hectic courses to say "hello." I have attended two good and enjoyable seminars...
...homeward leg of Rogers' hectic tour, TIME Correspondent, Herman Nickel, who accompanied the Secretary of State, concluded that the trip had accomplished much. U.S. spokesmen felt that they had persuaded both sides that it was essential to keep talking peace to achieve peace. Cabled Nickel: "Rogers succeeded in putting official U.S.-Israeli relations on a more businesslike, less sentimental and chummy basis. This required considerable firmness. Certainly Rogers had his priorities right. Given the solid state of the U.S.-Israeli relationship and the tender young reed of a new American relationship with the Arabs, Arab sensibilities were more important than...
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23-Several hundred Vietnam veterans ended the most hectic day of their four-day Washington encampment last night with an impressive two-mile candlelight parade around the Capitol and the front door of the White House, pausing only for a short service honoring war dead on the Capitol steps...
...confusion of ceaseless movement. Theatricality and insanity, the two most potent themes of modern theater, are the subject as well as the method. A production of an Ionesco play involves almost as many problems as there are stage directions. The coordination of movement and dialogue must be perfect; the hectic action must have a constant momentum which increasingly bombards the audience without exhausting it; and most of all, the production has got to be funny. Ionesco is a hilarious playwright, but his brand of humor requires virtuoso directing and acting to shine at all. The current Quincy House production...
...kind of security, he returned to England and wrote five novels in one year. There was no tumor, but even after he heard the good news, Burgess never stopped working-or moving around. Disgusted by high taxes and public indifference, he left London after his wife died, continued his hectic pace in Malta, Rome, and this year Princeton...