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...joke. The simple non-hero is named George Spelvin (Jeff Brooks), a theatrical pseudonym for an actor playing a secondary role in a play. Spelvin has unaccountably wandered into stage company that he has never kept. The time is the present, but the other actors arbitrarily inform him that he is Edwin Booth's understudy in Hamlet and must go on tonight since "Eddie" has been injured in a car crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Avaunt, God | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

Here, courtesy of a UPI photographer, is Sen. Howard H. Baker (R-Tenn.), seated behind a floral arrangement resembling an AWACs plane, telephoning President Reagan to inform him of the outcome of last Wednesday's Senate vote; here is the Saudi newspaper Al-Jazira saying that Reagan belongs "in the tent of history" as one of the greatest American leaders "in recorded history"; here, courtesy of an enterprising AP reporter, is a quote from a man-on-the-street in Jidda: "Allah is my witness, the timing of the AWACs victory over Israeli lobbyists is replete with proofs the Almighty...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: What Price 'Victory'? | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...council members said this week they expect professors to inform the committee of any dubious outside activities and predicted that Faculty members would comply with the body's recommendations...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Conflicts of Interest | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

...explained that "the purpose of the trial was not for making millions of dollars; it was to inform the many women who have been wronged by the medical profession nationwide...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Glicklich to Resume Malpractice Fight | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

Brody, who is in his first year as chairman, said that the catalogue's editors failed to inform him that the deadline for including names in the book falls well before the last day on which departments can formally hire instructors. As a result he did not forward the names of nine professors and instructors in time...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Catalogue's Blank Spaces Irk Language Professors | 9/18/1981 | See Source »

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