Word: short
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been one of the people in the crowd which packed Longfellow Hall last Wednesday night, you would have seen a short woman with grey wavy hair who proudly wears the demeanor of a mother and a grandmother. Her hands, firm and full, told of the work that she has had to do in order to raise her family. You only would have needed to scratch the surface a bit to find the core of toughness and conviction that has fought long and hard for the independence and survival of her beliefs and the beliefs of others...
...questionable track area is the hurdles, where Courtney Vance and Chuck Johnson enter the season fairly untested. The short distances should be reasonable events, with winter sprinters Joe Salvo and Joe Day joined by football players Wayne Moore and Ralph Polillio...
...wrinkled, yellow pea in this case is The Kugelmass Episode, based on a short story by Woody Allen and adapted for the stage by Richard Selden. In it, Sidney Kugelmass (Joel Levin), a professor of humanities at the City College of New York with a balding pate and a "chubby cheesecake choked body," tries to add adventure and romance to his life. He enlists help from a magician (Tom Blumenfield) with a contraption that can catapult a person into the novel of his choice and decides to have an affair with Emma Bovary (Troy Segal...
...Falling in with a tribe of long-haired dropouts, he soon discovers countercultural drugs and politics. Thanks to a whimsically funny plot twist, he also falls in love with Sheila (the voluptuous but innocent Beverly D'Angelo), a debutante he gallantly rescues from the upper-crust sobriety of Short Hills...
...conceivably come up with a useful, or at least a discerning, answer. Perhaps the question is so fundamental that, like love and wisdom, it will al ways elude human definition. For the moment, surely, it can be answered decisively, for better or worse, only by each in dividual. In short, the considerable resources, even good intentions, of science have so far disclosed little about happiness that was not available in the words of Seneca "Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest") in ancient times or those of Abe Lincoln ("Most folks are about as happy as they make up their...