Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was U.S. Ambassador Albert ("Bud") Sherer strolling arm in arm with Soviet Diplomat, Yuli Vorontsov through the glass and concrete Sava Corference Center outside Belgrade. Both looked as if they had just pulled off some master stroke of detente. As a matter of fact they had. After seven weeks of edgy deliberations to decide the date, duration agenda and procedures for a higher-level conference this autumn, following up the 1975 Helsinki accord, the envoys of 35 nations reached an agreement last week in a surprisingly conciliatory spirit...
DIED. Ernst Bloch, 92, unorthodox Marxist philosopher with a sizable following among student radicals; of a heart attack; in Tubingen, West Germany. His master work, Das Prinzip Hoffnung (The Principle of Hope), completed during his prewar years in the U.S., laid the groundwork for Theologian Jũrgen Moltmann's "philosophy of hope." Bloch later taught at the University of Leipzig, East Germany, before defecting to the West in 1961 because he was "no longer willing to expose my work or myself to undignified conditions...
...doorman. "We are not into sacrifice, martyrdom," he has written. Rubin and his roommate, Mimi Leonard, plan to get married in December. The most startling news is about Rennie Davis, who helped organize the Chicago Seven's convention mischief in 1968 and later blissed out on the Perfect Master Maharaj Ji. Davis, it turns out, now sells life insurance for John Hancock in Denver, wearing contact lenses and what looks like a blow-dry hairdo. He is living, he says, a sweet, useful life: Brighten the Corner Where...
...play is often cut by one act, at least, and the two-hour Don Juan in Hell segment is sometimes performed alone in concert reading. This full-length production is gloriously fortunate in having in the central role of Tanner an actor who is the pluperfect master of the Shavian rhetoric. At the risk of offending his admirable colleagues in the cast, one must say that it is extremely doubtful if so prodigious an undertaking could have succeeded without an actor of Ian Richardson's scope and power. His voice is like the trumpet of the Lord...
From the stage comes the joyful wallop of She Loves You (yeh, yeh, yeh). Behind the footlights, the four young New York musicians recruited for the venture-and rehearsed daily for nine months to master the music-play and sing about as well as mere Beatleoids might be expected...