Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BAREFOOT IN THE PARK cuts up about the period of marital adjustment in Warwick, N.Y., through Aug. 10; Salem, Va., Aug. 19-23; Cleveland Musicarnival, Aug. 18-23, with Virginia Graham; New London, N.H., Aug. 18-24; North Tonawanda, N.Y., Aug. 25-30; and Wallingford, Conn., Sept...
...nine full-evening, four act plays. Of the first two, penned when he was 18, we know only the titles: The Fatherless, and Laugh It Off If You Can. At 21, he wrote the sprawling but remarkable Platonov, which turned up only long after his death, in the Soviet period. In his late twenties, he turned out Ivanov, a flawed but great and vastly underrated work capable of packing a tremendous wallop in performance; and the tentative, transitional The Wood Demon, which later also provided much of the plot of Uncle Vanya...
Unhappy Broadcasters. Cullman's capitulation caught broadcasters by surprise. They had proposed to phase out cigarette ads over a three-year period beginning in January 1970. Such ads mean some $225 million a year to media broadcasters, and they had hoped that their schedule would ease the economic jolt. When the tobaccomen made their proposal, they asked for protection against antitrust action. They were concerned that broadcasters might sue for treble damages on grounds that the cigarette companies acted in collusion. The possibility may not be so remote. The National Association of Broadcasters is determined to fight any antitrust...
Moreover, leaders of the housing convention--formed last September by the CEOC, the local anti-poverty agency--could not, even if they wanted to, which most probably didn't-moderate these emotions. The housing convention had lapsed into a period of inactivity after its formation and initial pleas to the City government, the universities and everyone else to "do something" about housing. The ferment over rent control revived the organization evaporate, as its supporters would drift instead to the Cambridge Rent Control Referendum, the radical group pushing for rent control...
Coupled with this are the fundamental problems of other rehabilitation efforts, such as their inability to overcome a primary level education in such a short period of training...