Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eugene O'Neill. Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Edward Able did much (if not all) of their best work for the Broadway stage. Beckett received his first American production on one. Broadway was the place where technical aspects of the theater were developed to perfection. Broadway producers and directors were responsible for the creation of the musical, which, in such shows as West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof, has proved to be the only uniquely American contribution to world theater. But all this now belongs to the past, And so does Goldman's book. It is best...
Hayes will need support both from East Cambridge and from Brattle Street to win. In the Proportional Representation (PR) system under which Cambridge operates, however, this may be a difficult combination to muster, for above all Hayes needs number one votes, the rest don't mean much...
...Much of his program is directed toward returning some kind of balance to Cambridge's schools. The tracking system is a favorite target. Cambridge school children today are in effect told in the eighth grade whether they will take the college curriculum or the business courses, which means that they won't go to college. Like most tracking systems (Washington, D.C. among other cities has one) this hurts the poor. In addition the quality of Cambridge schools varies greatly depending on what area they are in. Upper city school libraries have eight books per student while lower city schools have...
What Hayes wants is another Harvard evaluation with local businesses helping too. He feels the University owes at least that much to the city. But this time he says, Cambridge must be in control and must make its own decision about what to do to change the system...
...Brattle Street crowd, and some of the audiences he faces are either apathetic or openly dubious. This is especially tricky when he speaks to groups that "belong" to various politicians. He handles himself well though, patiently explaining Cambridge's school system to people who don't know much and often don't particularly care, and fielding specific questions like...