Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REPERTORY COMPANY races through Richard Wilbur's lithe translation of Molière's The Misanthrope with a light touch. The best thing about the play is Brian Bedford's smug Acaste...
Poland's foremost economists have long pleaded for reforms that would encourage promising light industries, introduce the profit incentive to both management and labor, and decentralize the huge, torpid bureaucracy that rules the country's industry. As long ago as 1957, Jedrychowski announced that the state had agreed to those reforms "in principle." In practice, he and most other top policy-makers never got around to doing much about them-and Poland's economy is very nearly at a standstill. The standard of living has risen only fractionally since 1956. The press is full of complaints about...
...became a bestseller. "Suddenly, I'm a celebrity again," says Krock happily. He can hardly keep up with all the speeches and TV appearances that he's been offered. What's more, he says, "I am thinking of doing another book which is entirely on the light side of life...
...unsentimental children of the new generation," he says. He also designed it as total theater. Menotti enlisted the aid of Kinetic Sculptor Nicolas Schoffer and avant-garde Choreographer Alwin Nikolais to place The Globolinks in the proper visual orbit. Schoffer designed the production as a Now Generation light show, employing spotlights, slide projectors and blinking flashbulbs. He provided a continuous flow of color patterns that alternately suggested cityscapes, outer space, subterranean depths. Nikolais devised a series of sliding movements for The Globolinks that suggested weightlessness, and also designed their costumes; males had white tubelike bodies with stick antennas atop their...
...dozen staterooms. A haggard haberdasher from Baltimore stumbles out of his cabin, glass in hand, looking for ice. "Whew," he says. "She needs two 20-year-olds-not one 40-year-old." Milgrim adopts a literary tone: "Liaisons are being formed and torn asunder faster than you can light a cigarette...