Word: michael
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Director Michael Murray doesn't quite do justice to Awake and Sing, because he treats it overly like a period piece, pacing it gingerly and throwing varying degrees of strong accents into the mouths of his actors. The production abounds with significant pauses, which as a consequence lose all significance...
KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Jack Benny stops in to host "Fiddler on the Loose" with such guests as Concert Violinist Michael Rabin, Brazilian Singer Astrud Gilberto, Pianist Liberace and "The Waukegan String Quartet," which includes violins bowed by Rabin, Benny and Comedian Henny Youngman and cello by Morey Amsterdam...
Liberty deteriorating into license has become a contemporary abuse in several arts. In Michael McClure's The Beard, which opened at a Greenwich Village theater last week, two characters made up as Jean Harlow and Billy the Kid swap repetitive obscenities for 60 minutes. To what end? If The Beard means to scandalize, it fails: its words are now numbingly familiar onstage. If it means to extol freedom of speech, it falters: its four-letter words express so little that they produce constraint of speech...
...Iran, the company merely dipped deeper into its vast North American reserves and substituted Western Hemisphere petroleum for Middle East oil that could not reach Europe quickly because of the Suez Canal closure. As a result, Nickerson reported third-quarter earnings up 6.8%, to $93.8 million. Jersey Standard Chairman Michael L. Haider announced that the world's largest oil company had substantially increased its Western Hemisphere operations, and had a third-quarter rise in earnings of 15.8%, to $315 million. Gulf Oil's U.S. production was up in the quarter, and earnings rose 13%, to $138.4 millions. Phillips...
...Michael S. Ansara '67-4, a participant in the sit-in, said that--in the Dow recruiter's own words--he was establishing a "contact point." If this "contact point" amounted to the first stage in a criminal action, Ansara argued, then the sit-in was valid because it intercepted that action...