Word: parente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play is cleverly staged like a TV contest game. The game, of course, is life, and the unflinchingly ironic viewpoint of Adaptation is that life is a game played on as well as by the contestant. The four actors play many roles: parent, child, teacher, psychologist, husband, wife, in a fiendishly swift journey through the seven ages of man. As a buzzer sounds, the contestants hop from one huge checkerboard square to another. A games master indicates roles, crises and situations, and penalties or bonuses are meted out. The play is a running spoof on psychoanalytical jargon, which has become...
Because they disagree with their parent churches over matters as varied as theology, politics and civil rights, some Protestant congregations in the South would like to divorce themselves from their national organizations. It is not easy. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court turned down the arguments of two breakaway congregations in Savannah, Ga., that claimed ownership of their church property. The congregations had held that property in trust for the Presbyterian Church of the U.S., but a Georgia judge had declared that such trusts may be broken if the parent church "substantially departs" from the theology that it professed...
...decided to dip into its $300 million surplus to distribute a total of about $171 million in securities. Reason: National General Corp., a Los Angeles-based moviemaker and would-be conglomerate, recently picked up 75% control of Great American Holding Corp., the fire and casualty insurance firm's parent holding company...
...after all - under a different Johnson. He took the post of president of the Illinois Central Railroad, succeeding William B. Johnson, 50, who will be come chairman while remaining chief executive. "W.B.J.," as he is known around the railroad's Chicago headquarters, will also continue to head the parent Illinois Central Industries. It is a holding company that owns more than $200 million worth of real estate and air rights in Chicago alone, and has lately acquired some manufacturing companies. Boyd will handle day-to-day railroad operations, so Johnson can pursue further diversification...
Last week, just 100 days after the Memorial Center's dedication, Atlantans were shocked to hear that the ballet, opera and dramatic repertory were folding. Their parent, Atlanta Municipal Theater, had already run up a deficit of $300,000 and could continue no longer at the center. The reason was partly financial mismanagement and partly over-ambition. The Theater had kicked off its season with a superproduction of John Dryden and Henry Purcell's 17th century opera King Arthur, which simultaneously showed off the opera, ballet and dramatic companies. It cost $250,000, but it drew enough...