Word: landlords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joined a car pool instead of driving her own car to visit her horse at a stable outside town. The story is the same overseas. "Rarely worn sweaters are back in use in the evening," reports Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel. "And at the office, the knowledge that the landlord turns off the heat at 5:15 p.m. has quickened the pace of typewriters and telex machines...
...landlord says he cannot survive with the reduced rents," Evans says, "he should open his books to the public and, if it's so, the property should be bought and run by the city...
...basic problem of Roosevelt Towers is that the spirit of its residents has been broken by an environment which they can only perceive as hostile. They are isolated, surrounded by antagonistic people and forces. They find their landlord, the CHA, unresponsive and incompetent. They claim that a contractor hired by CHA to landscape the project had put up dead trees, and that attempts to ascertain the contractor's identity were rebuffed...
...uniformly good: Richard Cox (as Bob, the early freak who serves as the play's hero), Carol Williard (Kathy, his girlfriend, who moves out at the end of the second act and comes back for a final conversation after everyone else moves out), and Kenneth McMillan (the fat landlord, who informs the students that their "openness" is going to "save this fucking country" but whose putative benevolence doesn't keep him from keeping their deposit) seem to be best, but this may be just because they have the best parts. John Pasquin directs well, and William F. Matthews' set looks...
Lots of folks think student life is idyllic. The reason the neighbors complain, the landlord reassures the students in Moonchildren, is that they would give their last hair to live like students themselves. In Moonchildren's first act there's an encyclopedia salesman, a young person like the students or the secretary who envied my freedom. "You study math?" he asked the graduate student. "I'd have liked to study math...My father made me study law." When he realizes the students are of both sexes, the encyclopedia salesman's envy soars still higher, but I don't think Weller...