Word: protegees
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As an alumnus of The Crimson editorial board, I am astonished and appalled by Stephen E. Frank's recent column, "Hitler's Russian Protege" (April 7, 1994), declaring that the Russian anti-Semitic politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky ought to be assassinated. Frank's shaded declaration that it would "be more prudent...
The eponymous narrator, a self-contained middle-aged law professor at Harvard, introduces himself in the opening paragraph with passive-voiced modesty: "Relationships did not stick to me." The time is 1974, and Max, who is fleeing from the wreckage of his first marriage, is a summer-house guest on...
The music in Carousel is lovely but corny. Anyway, the essence of a book musical is the book. Hammerstein's protege Stephen Sondheim has said even the best musicals have a life of a few decades. Carousel is proof: it's stale.
The new Yankees is Abbott's 125th career production as writer, director, producer or actor. Erstwhile protege Harold Prince, 66, whose first big shows as a producer were Abbott's Pajama Game and the original Yankees, wasn't yet born when Abbott burst to writing fame in 1925 with the...
"For the first time in his life, he can let his creative instincts lead him and show results," says CBS Entertainment president Jeff Sagansky, who worked under Tartikoff at NBC. "I haven't seen him this comfortable ever before." Another former protege, NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield, says Tartikoff seems...