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...thing, he is devoted to the dance and thinks that the greatest figures in the American theater are George Balanchine and Martha Graham. "Many Broadway plays are simply stage visualizations of TV dramas," he says. "I wonder whether Broadway can ever build a viable theater on a lower common-denominator taste...
...Class B finals will also be played at 11 a.m., followed by the final round in the lower classes...
...coalition had broken down and the Congress given absolute majority in the mid-term elections of 1961. In the other states. its position had never been seriously threatened. Its domination of the Parliament at the Center was total. It controlled 364 of the 500 seats in the all-important lower house (Lok Sabha or the House of People) elected...
Simmer Down. To be sure, the stimulus will be selective: big-city banks, whose time deposits far exceed the $5,000,000 that qualifies for the Fed's lower 3% requirement, will find the new funds relatively less important. But the easing measure promises to give some breathing room to such hard-pressed sectors of the economy as housebuilding. In San Francisco, Bank of America President Rudolph Peterson welcomed the Federal Reserve Board's "help to stimulate expansion, particularly in the housing area," promptly cut rates for some home mortgages from...
These two books clearly belong in the second category. In the U.S., writes Playwright Arthur Miller in his foreword, short stories are "ranked more or less as casual things at the lower end of the scale of magnitude, like bungalows in the architectural world." Then why bother? Miller supplies his own answer: The short story is a form in which a writer can be as concise as his subject requires him to be. For a playwright, he says, the short story offers "a vessel for those feelings which, unelaborated, are truer, and yet for one reason or another...