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Harvard the corporate bureaucracy is showing its appreciation today for its 17,000 faculty and staff with a bring-the-whole-family, take-your-own-food picnic and football affair...
Some workplaces more than others, she adds. Her office "can't even afford to have a full picnic...
...spectators who lined the green curbsides or climbed the brown hillsides arrived astride their own ten-speeds, even bicycles built for two-and-a-half (the baby on the back fender). It was the freest event in the most expensive Olympics, and a sunny Sunday for a picnic in suburbia, where neighborhood residents favored hearts of palm and caviar over potato salad and baked beans...
When Come Back, Little Sheba opened on Broadway in 1950, critics hailed its author, William Inge, as an authentic voice of the plain people west of the Mississippi. He burnished his reputation for passionate simplicity with Picnic (winner of a 1953 Pulitzer Prize), Bus Stop (1955) and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957). Never a master of plot or construction, Inge was incomparably tender, a poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-aged longing. An honored place in theater history seemed assured. Then all went sour. Flop followed flop; drink and depression overtook him. When he committed...
...City mounted a powerful Come Back, Little Sheba, the first major Manhattan production since its premiere. The Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge, Mass., is currently staging A Loss of Roses with Elizabeth Franz and Shaun Cassidy. A musical version of Bus Stop and a West Coast stage revival of Picnic are pending, and Washington Post Drama Critic David Richards is writing an Inge biography...