Word: michael
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK COMEDY. British Playwright Peter Shaffer looses eight characters on a stage that is supposed to be in total darkness. Director John Dexter manipulates them in a fracturingly funny people jam, with Michael Crawford, Geraldine Page and Lynn Redgrave leading the acrobatics...
...RIMERS OF ELDRITCH is both evocative and entertaining, as Lanford Wilson re-creates the mood and the milieu of a ghost mining town in the Midwest. Fluidly paced by Director Michael Kahn, Rimers is a collection of vignettes that might have come from Winesburg, Ohio, set in the dramatic form of Under Milk Wood...
...Jackson, a federal grand jury charged 19 men, including Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey and his chief deputy, Cecil Price, with conspiring to violate the civil rights of the three young civil rights workers-Andrew Goodman, 20, Michael Schwerner, 24, and James Chancy, 21, who were shot dead near Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964. In a separate indictment, the grand jury charged twelve men with conspiring to "intimidate, threaten, and coerce" Hattiesburg Farmer Vernon Dahmer, who died when his home was fire-bombed last year. One man, Sam H. Bowers Jr., 42, Imperial Wizard of the White Knights...
...item moving over the A.P. ticker alarmed the U.S. embassy staff in Bonn. Michael McGhee, 19-year-old son of the U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, George McGhee, had been arrested in California for driving under the influence of LSD. The embassy's public affairs counselor, Albert Hemsing, phoned Colonel George E. Moranda, 49, U.S. Army information chief in Europe, and asked him to keep the story out of the Army daily, Stars and Stripes-at least until the case came to court...
...suggest a "bland acceptance of the welfare state." If we decline to follow the New Left in total denunciation of the New Deal--a denunciation which often sounds familiarly like that of the extreme Right--we nevertheless feel that democratic participation must expand as well as welfare measures. When Michael Harrington calls for a "3rd New Deal," he is talking about "social investment a conscious and political allocation of resources to meet public needs" (his own words), not-just more social security, as implied in the review...