Word: servants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Chiang Ch'ing was still a young girl, her mother left her father and went to work as a servant. Of the many nights her mother left her alone at home, Chiang
...first act belongs entirely to the president's wife, played by Lizellen LaFollette. In fact, she speaks almost every line in the act, addressing either a mute servant or the bed once occupied by her puppy while trying to ignore the offstage laughter of the president and his masseur, who, we are told, spend their time telling each other jokes. LaFollette makes a Noble stab at rescuing the show, but her obvious talent is wasted. No one can deliver lines like "proceeds from the benefit will go to the Mongolian idiots" and look good. The President's wife does...
...medicines, and the increasing willingness of patients to sue physicians to make them account for mistakes in treatment. Sci-Tech, in a sense, has been demoted from its demigodhood. The public today rallies, in its untidy way, around the notion that Hans J. Morgenthau put into words in Science: Servant or Master?. "The scientist's monopoly of the answers to the questions of the future is a myth...
...group of aristocrats watching the setting sun silhouette a factory on the horizon. But this kind of staginess can also be distracting: an imposingly literal set of cherry trees all but overruns a house in Act I; a little girl bearing cherry blossoms self-consciously tiptoes into the old servant Firs' death scene. The high, deep stage-space forces the cast to play to a scale larger than that of Chekhov's text (here rendered into colloquial English by Jean-Claude van Itallie...
Died. Anthony Crosland, 58, British Foreign Secretary and one of the Labor movement's leading theorists of democratic socialism; of a stroke; in Oxford, England. The son of a senior civil servant, Crosland went to Oxford, where he earned a first in politics, philosophy and economics. While serving in the House of Commons and in various Labor governments, he wrote several books, including The Future of Socialism (1956), which suggested that class had replaced capitalism as the appropriate target of socialists. After his appointment to Prime Minister James Callaghan's Cabinet last April, Crosland became the chairman...