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...that book Without Marx or Jesus,* wrote on this subject and said: "I don't think the answers are going to come from the Communist world or from the old, European countries. The one place where there is flexibility and creativity enough is America." I remain an optimist. I see opportunities for improving the quality of people's lives not only here but in other parts of the world...
...exposure when I want it and a board of directors who understand that theater today, like opera and ballet, is not going to make money." Although Long Wharf now plays to 90% capacity in an eight-month season, it has a mulish deficit of $400,000. Still, Brown, an optimist, sees a trend being reversed. "Two successful theaters have made New Haven as a theater town. Why, people here are more inclined to see a play than a film. It's an American miracle!" ∙Gina Mallet
...ovation for her courage and her performance. It was barely four weeks after major but successful cancer surgery, and Sills was making the first of five performances scheduled for the next two weeks. She was 40 Ibs. lighter and, except for her voice, clearly tired. She is an indomitable optimist, however. "I was lucky the cancer was contained," she said during the intermission. "Never in all the years in this business have I slept on the day I was singing. I used to go to the movies. But today I had a nap. I kinda liked it. I have...
Despite his frank reservations about the efficacy of government, Brown remains an optimist and a reformer who says of his undoctrinaire political philosophy: "I'm convinced that activism hi government, credible action, is the answer. That doesn't mean liberal activism. It means simply getting done for people what they need to have done...
Rosovsky told one audience not long ago that the "dean must be an inveterate optimist, or undergo severe depression." With his job now structured so that the hard choices of budgeting are balanced by the broad range of the Redbook committee, Rosovsky, despite his ambivalence, has little reason to be any less than pleased. As Harvard grads mark their 25th reunion, Rosovsky celebrates his as a member of the class of 1949 at William and Mary. Rosovsky seemed only vaguely aware of the fact last week and said he was too busy at Harvard to mark the occasion...