Word: iras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impose my beliefs on them." She championed the Equal Rights Amendment, and considers herself a feminist. She sponsored legislation that would help women in private pension plans by lowering the age at which a woman becomes vested; an amendment permitting wives to set aside the same amount in IRA accounts as their husbands; and a measure to give better pension rights to women who become widows or divorcees at younger ages than now provided for by law. She worked for a bill to cut off federal funding of child-protection programs in states failing to require adequate medical care...
...original version of the George Gershwin-George S. Kaufman collaboration disappeared. More than a half-century passes. Enter Marjorie Samoff and Eric Salzman, looking for the right play to open their newly formed American Music Theater Festival. They pieced Band together with the help of the late Ira Gershwin and Anne Kaufman Schneider, the playwright's daughter. It opened last week in Philadel phia with a cast led by Saturday Night Live Veteran Bill Irwin, 34, a practiced stage clown. "It's a pretty garbled satire," admits Irwin, "but it has a wonderful thrust." The Inquirer critic liked...
...Ira Bashkow '84, $1500 for his senior thesis entitled "Bandaids for Armageddon Public Information in the Early Atomic Civil Defense Program" Margaret W. Rossiter, Visiting Lecturer...
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin...
...Director Craig Smith stage the songs with charm and style. It is a pleasure to hear little-known works like the title song along with old favorites like Fascinating Rhythm, which is affectingly sung by Marianne Tatum and a group of children. But with very few exceptions, George and Ira seem as uncomfortable in Gorky's play as they would be if they had been invited to the wrong party by the wrong person. In Oh, Lady Be Good!, for instance, Ira's lyrics say it is spring in the city; Gorky's text insists that...