Word: nunn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like so much hand luggage. Nicholas Nickleby-back now through the New Year by popular demand and virtually sold out even before it opened-is more than an event or a spectacle. It is a vigorous reaffirmation of theater as a social force and, to use R.S.C. Director Trevor Nunn's word, a "moral" one. The play is personal and political at once, striking at both the heart and the conscience of the audience. A pageant and a celebration, Nicholas Nickleby has the breadth of great theater and the force of life...
...Director Nunn, 40, had been thinking about doing a Dickens adaptation for some time, but the financial crisis of 1979 urged the decision on him. The Conservative government was making worrisome noises about cutting its subsidies to the arts. Since the R.S.C. receives more than one-third of its support from an Arts Council grant, the company cautiously renewed its lease on the Aldwych for only the first half of 1980. This meant that whatever activity was undertaken there would have to keep some 40 actors busy as well as light a fire under the Arts Council...
...choice of Nicholas Nickleby required an entire show to be put together in six months from a play that did not exist. Nunn chose David Edgar, a young British playwright whose work the R.S.C. had staged in the Warehouse, its smaller theater in Covent Garden, to adapt a script from the teeming incidents of Dickens' 800-plus pages. "I was writing Part 2 while rewriting Part 1, and it was all constantly changing," Edgar recalls. Five weeks before the opening, he had reached only the mid-point of Part...
Secretary of Defense. Since Reagan needs at least one big-name Democrat in his Cabinet, a natural choice (Nixon also considered him for the job) is Senator Henry Jackson, who has always stood for a strong military. Another like-minded Democrat is Georgia Senator Sam Nunn. Still another possibility is Haig, although there would have to be a change in the law that prohibits any officer from becoming Defense Secretary until he has been off the active-duty list for ten years. Haig retired in June...
...that impulse may fade, Moore believes, as the Democrats seek a newer breed, with less static and traditional views. The Senate may offer some notable new stars, including Georgia's Sam Nunn and Connecticut's Chris Dodd. Among the young Democratic Governors who are potential comers in the party is West Virginia's Jay Rockefeller...