Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before her marriage in 1957. This week she sets out on a nationwide, 65-city roadshow tour of the two-character Broadway hit Same Time, Next Year. Her role: Doris, a faithful adultress who for more than two decades has an annual meeting with the same lover. "If Betsy Palmer gets tired of playing Doris on Broadway, I'm available at the end of April," Crosby quips. If not, she hopes to get another role in London's West End. Is she scared? Well, yes, but that's nothing new. Says she: "Standing beside Bing Crosby...
Tuesday afternoon, in the elegant, ornately chandeliered lobby of the Palmer House, and in the nearby Conrad Hilton, English professors in herringbone jackets, with copies of Goethe or Günter Grass occasionally protruding from their pockets, chatter about irony, ambiguity and Erich Auerbach's theories of mimesis. A babble of French and German and Spanish fills the air. Nervous young Ph.D. candidates whiz past, heading for the Job Information Center on the fourth floor of Palmer House, where a giant board carries notices of late-breaking job openings. An October bulletin had listed only 375 job openings...
Upstairs in the small meeting rooms, the M.L.A.'s traditional intellectual business goes on pretty much as usual, with over 700 sessions devoted to topics both arcane and trendy. In Parlor B of Palmer House, for instance, an attentive, largely gray-haired, gray-suited audience listens to William Youngren of Boston College expound on "Dr. Johnson, Joseph Wharton and a 'Theory of Particularity.' " In another, a panel of women professors bears down on "Sexism and Racism in Shakespeare" to an overwhelmingly female audience. But concern for the tremendous Ph.D. glut has invaded even these rarefied environs...
...those wishing to avoid the lure of an open library, Watson Rink and the Palmer Dixon tennis courts will remain open throughout the holiday season...
First, the flash. Allen Ginsberg returns to Passim Coffeehouse, 47 Palmer St., tonight through Sunday. As in past year, Ginsberg will present a potpourri of poetry and music, accompanied by several friends. Tuesday and Wednesday John Fahey and Mark Dix, two highly respected acoustic guitarists, appear on the Passim stage. Fahey's exceptional finger-picking technique--and his singing style--influenced his nationally-known guitarist-friend Leo Kottke, with whom Fahey has recorded. Tickets for all shows are $4.50, and you can buy them in advance or at the door (be warned--Ginsberg is always well-attended). Shows...