Word: localizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assert that the C.D.F. is forcing the other local drama groups out of business. And you go on to cite the demise of Lee Falk's Boston Summer Theatre, which until three years ago you co-produced with him in New England Mutual Hall. Now the fact is that Mr. Falk, having lost money in recent summers, had already decided to forego a 1959 season and to sell all his theatrical property before the new MeBAC theatre was given the go-ahead...
...that, although Falk's project has been discontinued, another new group under the aegis of the Boston Summer Playhouse is now offering its first season of shows at the Charles Playhouse in Boston. The Tufts Arena Theatre seems to be getting along as well as ever; and the several local music circuses are reportedly doing unprecedentedly good business...
...considerable financial egg," you go on to deduce that it has "the least successful record of all." This is a crassly materialistic view. The C.D.F., in the stature of its offerings, has been a pronounced success. And in giving Shaw's Saint Joan with Siobhan McKenna it provided local theatregoers with as great a performance as the Boston area has ever witnessed...
...industries ranging from trucking to show business, printing to airlines. This year, as part of industry's tougher stand toward labor, management aims to pluck some of the featherbeds. A chief cause of the current steel strike is management's insistence on winning more control over local working practices, partly motivated by the desire to wipe out what Chief Steel Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper called "loafing, featherbedding and unjustifiable idle time." The railroad industry, worst feathered of the lot, has pledged an all-out assault against make-work when contract talks open this fall. In the oil industry...
Trap Drums & Businessmen. After studying at M.I.T. and the famed Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he offended a department of meteorology at New York University with the breezy claim that he could forecast more accurately than the local U.S. weatherman. At Minnesota he outraged College of Education colleagues in 1957 by blithely asserting that they had replaced the three Rs with "the three Ts-typing, tap dancing and tomfoolery." Once he thrust his martini glass at Minneapolis Symphony Conductor Antal Dorati and said: "Tony, we can build a machine that can compose music." Retorted Dorati: "Well, then you'd better...