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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offered through a tortuously-named subdivision of the American Repertory Theatre--"A.R.T./New Stages Presents: Late Night Cabaret"--which aims to give students of the A.R.T.'s fledgling theater institute something to do. Perhaps the masters of the company, too long burdened by endless productions of little humor, can learn something from their spirited pupils...
SASC Leader: We'll all get away with just a slap on wrist, probably disciplinary probation which means nothing. If things look like they're going bad at the Ad Board, we'll throw a symbolic blockade up around the members. They'll learn to see things the right way. In any case, there won't be a next time because we have Dean Spence in our symbolic pocket, so to speak. Next time we'll just remind him that the controversial speech quota has been filled, and the speech will be cancelled...
...brought the standard orchestral and instrumental repertoire to American ears. When Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler came to New York to head the Metropolitan Opera, he found a musical public "in contrast to 'our people' in Vienna...-- unsophisticated, hungry for novelty, and in the highest degree eager to learn...
...something of a mixed blessing that the Soviets are equally confused. The General Secretary struggles to keep his hawkish military in check, but both leaders are unpleasantly surprised to learn of cracks in the system. Initially the Pentagon can't find all its 25,000-odd nuclear warheads, and dismisses this problem as "inventory shrinkage." A ballistic-missile submarine in the Indian Ocean can't be located. The Soviet leader's helplessness mounts as the KGB and Soviet military battle for turf...
Other groups learn a lesson from this. The Republican Club forms "symbolic blockade" squad and disrupts any speakers who are registered Democrats. Spence now is forced to restrict Democrats. The Democratic Club uses the same tactics. Now only Independents can appear as many times as they want. But, alas, The Society of Non-Moderate People targets the Independents. Now no one of any political persuasion can speak more than "once a week...