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Violence Y. Reason. All the same, the Pentagon is understandably alarmed by the anti-ROTC movement. Though ROTC is thriving at some state universities and Catholic colleges, it is simultaneously being banished from the Ivy League, a major source of precisely the kind of citizen-officers who might normally leaven the military with needed intellect and imagination. By faculty vote, ROTC will be stripped of academic credit and relegated to an extracurricular activity at Yale and Harvard. Dartmouth is considering whether to reduce the number of ROTC courses that qualify for credit or to drop credit altogether if ROTC...
...Into his unlikely comedy Peter Nichols throws snatches of tap-dance routines, jazz and vaudeville turns that leaven the tale of a young British couple (Zena Walker and Donal Donnelly) who camouflage the fragility of their marriage by concentrating their attentions and emotions on their hopelessly spastic daughter...
...Into his unlikely comedy, Peter Nichols throws snatches of tap-dance routines, jazz, and vaudeville turns to leaven the tale of a young British couple (Zena Walker and Donal Donnelly) who camouflage the fragility of their marriage by concentrating their attentions and emotions on their hopelessly spastic daughter...
Eugene lonesco once admitted that he was a playwright of despair-otherwise, he said, "why do you think I have to be so funny?" The basic problem with Exit the King is that it is not funny enough to leaven the despair, and what comic spirit there is has been muffled in this Manhattan production by the APA Repertory Company. A 90-minute mood piece on the palpable fear of approaching death, the play has been given a sleepy rather than springy staging by Director Ellis Rabb. Instead of displaying regal authority and a poignant awareness of death, Richard Easton...
...DANNY THOMAS HOUR (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Phil Silvers, Cyd Charisse, Nanette Fabray and Tennessee Ernie Ford join Danny for the first of six musical-variety specials that will leaven this new dramatic-anthology series. Premiere...