Word: notional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway HAIR. Now that the hippie notion is fading away, a slickly packaged version of hippiedom has swung onto Broadway. The songs rock, the expletives explode and the energetic cast exuberates-but so quickly does U.S. society shift that the play's style of dissent is already dated. Director Tom O'Horgan achieves startling production effects even though distraction is certainly no substitute for destination...
...Federal aid to education is now geared to developing new "centers of excellence" around the country, and the report seems to assume that the current financial squeeze on established private college is going to get worse. With its final paragraph, the report delivers the coup de grace to the notion that Harvard can be universally excellent: "The Committee recommends that the Faculty concentrate upon a limited number of areas in which it can provide top-quality leadership rather than seek to achieve a full spectrum of appointments in every department and academic specialty. Given financial constraints, the Faculty cannot hope...
...Barnum & Bailey's sideshow. His specialties are pop songs from early decades of the century, and his performances flicker with a genuine talent for re-creating the styles of such stars of the era as Arthur Fields, Gene Austin, Ruth Etting and Russ Columbo. But Tiny dismisses the notion that he does imitations. "The spirits of singers whose songs I do are living within me," he insists. All this is pathetically easy to mock, yet Tiny's total absorption in his role-what one friend calls "the purity of his madness" -cloaks him in an impervious aura...
...which he daringly pressed after World War II when competitors were fearfully holding back, is one factor: Sears's $190 million expansion plans for this year include 35 new stores, nine of them in Eastern states where sales have jumped by 63% since 1962. Another still-blossoming Wood notion is insurance. Sears's Allstate subsidiary is the nation's second largest auto-insurance company, now generates about 20% of Sears's revenue...
...notion that animates the patrons of culture centers across the length of the U.S. is that regional theaters will revitalize American drama. It seems to be almost an article of faith that the hinterland is teeming with mute dramatic Miltons who will be brought to full and glorious voice with a foundation grant. What is the hard news and dispiriting fact? Not a single new playwright of any magnitude has, to the present moment, been unearthed by the regional theater. Indeed, the number of new plays produced by the overwhelming majority of the regional theaters in any given season compares...