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...playwright and novelist whose elegant, carefully wrought works include the Broadway and London hit The Chalk Garden (1955) and the 1935 novel National Velvet, which nine years later became a film starring Elizabeth Taylor, then twelve years old; in London. Bagnold, who was married for 42 years to Sir Roderick Jones, longtime chairman of the Reuters news agency, demanded three hours every day for writing in their 35-room mansion in Rotting-dean, Sussex...
...settle for smaller favors and find out just how small they are. The Kan-der-Ebb music and lyrics are amiable but pallid. Still, they do offer some comic relief. In It Isn 't Working and / Told You So, Tess's secretary (Roderick Cook) and her maid (Grace Keagy) team up to pepper below-the-salt potshots at Tess and Sam's splintering love life. The evening's high spot consists of Tess and a humble housewife (Marilyn Cooper) agreeing that The Grass Is Always Greener - a lowlife, high-life duet. Cooper makes this sequence...
...Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Aesthetics, said yesterday he signed the petition as "a matter of conscience," adding, "I would like to think my country has as moral a foreign policy as possible...
...countries is expected to fall by 8.1% during the fourth quarter, it will increase by 7.1% in the developing nations. At the same time, some industrial countries like Italy and West Germany have continued to build new, more efficient plants, even though the international steel market was weak. David Roderick, chairman of U.S. Steel, estimates that world steelmaking capacity is 60 million to 80 million tons in excess of demand...
...generation ago, atheistic empiricists like Harvard's Willard V. Quine were influential simply because "they were the brightest people," says Philosophy Professor Roderick Chisholm of Brown University, adding that now the "brightest people include theists, using a kind of tough-minded intellectualism" that was often lacking on their side of the debate...