Word: pickwick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tentatively dubbed "Pickwick," the magazine will be divided into two sections-fiction and nonfiction, Tim D. Stone '83, publisher of the Pickwick said yesterday. The fiction writings will be freelance pieces ranging from satire to free-style while the non-fiction section will comment on the use of humor as a historical social phenomenon, he added...
Members of the Pickwick plan to sell advertising and hope to solicit funds from the College to finance the publication. They also plan to charge for the magazine. "There will be no free distribution," Stone said...
...initial press run of Pickwick will be 2000 to 3000 copies. 'These will probably sell for less than $2 each," Parr said yesterday...
since 1968?and director of the current smash London musical Cats?visited the U.S.S.R. "The director of the Gorky Theater told me that for the next six months his company would be working on the Pickwick Papers," Nunn, 41, recalls. "It emerged that such large-scale adaptations of Dickens are commonplace in Soviet theater. In a sense, that shamed me into it." The following year, inflation devoured much of the R.S.C.'s government grant (the company receives almost 40% of its approximately $12 million budget from the Arts Council). It could afford to stage only one additional new work instead...