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...Lawndale, Calif.: "The paradox felt by teen fathers is that while they want the young lady to receive services, they are ambivalent because they can't provide for them the way they should. It defeats their masculinity." Until recently it was thought that this same sense of masculine pride would prevent young fathers from participating in programs designed to help them. The Bank Street College study showed that the opposite was true: teen fathers lunged at the opportunity, particularly where job training was offered. At the end of the two-year program, 61% of the previously unemployed young...
...fashioned is precisely the description that the avant-garde would attach to Briton David Pownall's Pride and Prejudice, being given its U.S. premiere in a meticulous production by Kenneth Frankel at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater. Shrewdly and wittily adapted from Jane Austen's classic 1813 novel, Pownall's tale has a beginning, middle and end. Its intrigues of love, marriage and social climbing unfold in period costume on representational sets. The characters are affectionate exaggerations of recognizable types. This is satire without much bite: the play's boldest statements are that there is more to life than...
Like its source, this Pride and Prejudice makes spectators care about the fates of some very silly and shallow people, endowing them with no heroism but great vulnerability and charm. Pownall, 47, has plucked out the essentials from Austen. There is the tug-of-war wedlock of the middle-aged Bennets, she (Marge Redmond) a worrier and a conniver, he (Richard Kiley) a detached and almost enigmatic amateur scholar. There is the frustrating courtship dance between the Bennets' clever, winsome daughter Elizabeth (Jane Kaczmarek) and the rich Mr. Darcy (Peter Gallagher), both too proud to recognize the inevitability of their...
When they reach the age of 75, even the most resilient of men and women are tempted to settle back and reflect on the past with a mixture of pride and wistfulness. Ronald Reagan does not have that luxury or, in fact, that temperament. As he rings in the sixth year of his presidency at the Palm Springs estate of Publisher Walter Annenberg this week and looks forward to his 75th birthday a month later, he faces a year that may be critical for his principal goals: scaling back the role of Government and improving the prospects for peace...
...niche with flights between California and the Midwest. Many others, though, have failed. After expanding too swiftly, Air Florida filed for bankruptcy in 1984 and then merged with Chicago's Midway Airlines. The casualties of competitive battles in the past two years have also included Louisiana-based Pride Air, Pacific Express of California and Northeastern International, all of which suspended flights or went out of business because of financial difficulties...