Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS did not call his memory play The Glass Zoo for good reason. "Menagerie" hints at the intimacy of three creatures with a fragility and warmth that is distinctly not zoo-like. All too human, The Glass Menagerie remembers the post-adolescent longing for freedom and adventure of a young poet caged in a fading, depressionistic tenement, but more, it characterizes the last generation that could daydream innocently. That era's dream machines were the phonograph and the movie projector, but they worked songs and pictures that opened romantic vistas so different from today's defined and redefined motion...
...court found that Sprague had told Mitchell last June "there is no reason not to" allow the CBA to use the house. But, it continues, Sprague later refused the occupancy permit because Higley had told him it had become a "political issue...
...very political agency," Smith said. "The only reason we have a new manager is that we have a new governor. Those things happen every four years--we hope...
...times, came close to toppling the whole system. But one of America's greatest virutes, inherent in her people and strengthened by her institutions, is adaptability, the ability to respond creatively and dynamically to a dangerous situation. Vietnam exerted extraordinary social pressures on our country, and the only reason it has so debilitated the national spirit is because we have not confronted the pressures openly enough. Whatever its artistic merits, perhaps Apocalypse Now's greatest achievement will be to force the stark reality of Vietnam into our minds and onto our lips, to demand that we react to the brutal...
...whatever reason, Silber doesn't mince words. Responding to charges that he denied salary increases to political science professors Howard Zinn and Murray Levin because they are among his most outspoken critics, Silber said they simply do not deserve higher salaries: "They are not regarded in high esteem generally--Harvard has never offered them a professorship; neither has Yale. If these people are so worried about their salaries, why don't they get an offer someplace else? The answer is no place else wants them...