Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BUTTER AND EGG MAN first opened in 1925, and is the only play that George S. Kaufman ever wrote without a collaborator. This show-biz saga sags a bit now, and the lines are scarcely howlers, but period costumes and an able, loving cast endow it with innocent nostalgia...
...months since President Johnson announced the U.S. military buildup for Viet Nam, draft calls have inched steadily upward. Last month's total - 49,300 - was the highest since early 1951, the peak mobilization period of the Korean War, when 80,000 men a month were called. The effect has been to deplete the nation's 1-A manpower pool to the point at which Selective Service headquarters is now forced to find new ways to replenish...
House drama societies also sprang up through the '50's, most of them specializing in one area or period of drama. Winthrop did musical comedies; Eliot did Shakespeare; Lowell became known for the Lowell House Opera; Leverett produced mainly one act plays; Dunster and Adams spread out in all directions...
Several other announcements in the same period did little to mollify the growing student contingent of anti-Loebites. The HDC, which had already started discussing possible inaugural productions, was jarred to hear that Chapman's assistant, Stephen Aaron, would direct the first play at the Loeb. Several years earlier, Aaron had been Harvard's foremost student director. Now, despite all his efforts to represent the interests of undergraduates, he became a symbol of faculty control...
Harvard fared better in a thriller the year before. After one early season loss, Harvard beat the Bruins 1-0, on a last period goal headed in by Chris Ohiri. Because of that win, the booters ended the season in a first place tie with Brown...