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Wilder has himself carefully prescribed in the text the myriad details of staging, so that, at a basic level, there is not much a director need do. Thus it is a hard play to ruin, which explains part of its appeal to high-school and other amateur groups with their often untrained directors. Nonetheless, a skilled director and gifted players can raise Our Town to an exalting experience, and that is exactly what Michael Kahn and his charges have achieved here...
...Houston and a gall-bladder operation, he had enjoyed a festive homecoming dinner in his fortress-like brick house in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. His guests were the handful of people he could trust: one of his daughters and her husband; Charles ("Chuckie") English, his partner in myriad syndicate enterprises over the years; and his loyal courier-chauffeur, Dominick ("Butch") Blazi. No matter that lawmen had shadowed Giancana's every move since he landed at O'Hare Airport and were keeping watch on the house. He was used to that...
...become a global carrier again when the route swap with Pan Am expires within the next two years. Trans World seems likely to continue losing money this year, though its monthly deficits may be smaller. In hopes of bringing a fresh approach to bear on the airline's myriad problems, the board will probably go outside the company to find a replacement for Tillinghast...
Hitler's myriad executioners sometimes operated abroad. One early victim was Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, killed in 1934 by Austrian Nazis. A Croatian secret society called the Ustachis, with possible assistance from Mussolini's and Hitler's governments, killed French Foreign Minister Jean Louis Barthou and King Alexander of Yugoslavia in Marseille...
Practically the only thing people agree on about affirmative action as a whole and the program at Harvard in particular is that it isn't working very well. It is so dependent on good faith on the part of the myriad employers here that it has not produced much in the way of concrete results, and its implications of federal tampering with Harvard's independence and devotion to quality have created a reaction against it. It's hard to tell if it will ever be possible for Harvard to increase the numbers of women and minorities here substantially...