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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most popular English playwrights of the '20s, Lonsdale was a master of drawing-room comedy, sophisticated plays about the idle, but not idle-tongued, rich. "In the '50s and '60s, when the angry young men were writing, people thought Freddy's plays were absolute rubbish," says Harrison. "But the angries have grown old and got their goodies, and they don't know what to be angry about any more. So there's going to be a revival of Lonsdale, I think. The plot of Aren't We All? is not terribly strong, but the play itself is really rather nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rex Harrison: I Go Back to Methuselah! | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...letters in Haight's Selections have been judiciously culled from his ninevolume magnum opus. Furnished with explanatory notes, the correspondence may be read as an unselfconscious autobiography recounted in the voice Henry James found as "soft and rich as that of a counselling angel." Eliot also delights in playing the devil with Victorian cant and hypocrisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pride and Power Selections From George Eliot's Letters | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...Tufts softball team in rich in talent--it has some world-class acrobats on the roster...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Tufts Trips Over Batwomen, 7-3 | 4/19/1985 | See Source »

...Shawn Bookin '87 4:58:50 Michael Yampol '85 4:59 Nick Lawrence '86 5:02 Lou J. Morsberger '85 5:11:32 T. Kyle Stanley '85 5:23 Blosker D. Meitzen 5:40 Richard J. Jackson '85 5:47 Glenn Butterton 5:48 Joan Butterton 5:48 Rich A. Lafont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Marathon Contingent Strong | 4/16/1985 | See Source »

...line. But he isn't, and we can't fool ourselves about Ho. It's like an old cowboy used to say, 'There's no use being poor and stupid all your life when you can buy a pint of whiskey and be rich and smart in an hour.' We can't do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Lyndon Johnson's Personal Alamo | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

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