Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this season, with a company of 140 actors, is running 33 productions, of which 11 are contemporary Soviet plays, 14 are Russian classics, and 8 are foreign works. In contrast, all of Broadway has only 25 shows, including the three at the city's own repertory company at Lincoln Center...
...Lincoln Center Theatre is at present not much better off than Broadway. It began its first season on the wrong foot, when its producers built Arthur Miller's After the Fall into a Broadway-type hit, and the play's female lead, Barbara Loden, into a Broadway star. Of the theatre's other productions, O'Neill's Marco Millions and S.N. Behrman's But for Whom Charlie were coolly received, and The Changeling was disastrous. Because of The Changeling, the Center's Board of Directors decided to fire Robert Whitehead, the theatre's artistic director. With him went Elia Kazan...
Toward evening's end, Johnson hustled his guests into a waiting limousine, sped through the almost deserted, post-midnight Washington streets to the Lincoln Memorial. Aware that Yameogo wanted especially to see the shrine, Johnson ordered that the spotlight illuminating the seated Lincoln figure be left on. As a Secret Serviceman beamed a flashlight, Johnson escorted the Yameogos up the stairs and into the memorial. There they paused, as Yameogo caught his first glimpse of the massive, brooding figure. "Formidable! Formidable!," he whispered in French. On the trip back to Blair House, Yameogo and Johnson quoted to each other...
...worked - as a "feeder" for the assembly line -before he took up fighting. Emile has a "spending problem," says Albert. He's made close to $750,000 in 50 fights, and he's spent it, on other people. Griffith shrugs. After all, he does own a 1965 Lincoln, "a lot of clothes," and 15 pairs of shoes. "I'm all right," he says. "And I enjoy taking care of the family...
...mounting it. But the Robbins production was a symptom of the revived vigor of the American Ballet Theatre, which has had its ups and downs since it first burst on the U.S. stage with such freshly contemporary ballets as Robbins' own 1944 Fancy Free. Its current season at Lincoln Center has been a near-sellout success. Once again the company is what it was intended to be when it was organized 25 years ago -a grand gallery of the dance. From its vast and varied repertory of a hundred ballets, the company staged old classics like La Fille...