Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROOM and A SLIGHT ACHE. Harold Pinter can be relied on to produce unnerving, dramatic and provocative comedies of terror, and he does it again in these two engrossing one-acters...
...Slight Thaw. Rumanian foreign policy favors Soviet-style peaceful coexistence, but Dej himself was as much a Stalinist as Mao. A onetime shoemaker's apprentice, he used Stalin's backing to oust Ana Pauker, the Communist Amazon, in 1952. His regime, despite some slight thawing, maintains just about the greyest, grimmest police state in Europe. Not until last year were 10,000 of his 12,000 political prisoners released...
...public-affairs programming, Huntley-Brinkley or Walter Cronkite both get a slight nod. Lyndon Johnson fares worse. At Princeton last week, they stayed after U.N.C.L.E. to watch his civil rights address but spent most of the time groaning in pseudo-sophistication at his "pseudo-folksiness." At the University of Chicago, they didn't even wait. No sooner was the presidential seal on screen than the seats started emptying...
...score is at war with itself. Stephen Sondheim's lyrics are brain-dry and sometimes brain-shy; Richard Rodgers' music is moon-washed, and sometimes soggier than the Grand Canal. The choreography is either a slight or an oversight. In Waltz, company loves misery. The unhappy lovers consort with tour-frazzled Babbitts and an expatriate couple whose marriage is sinking considerably faster than Venice...
...Harvard Cooperative Society yesterday pledged to retain its present rates patronage refunds this year. The Coop's eneral manager cautioned, however, that sts of the new Palmer St. textbook may force slight reductions in either...