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Next, the conquistador of the campus decided to turn his company into a conglomerate, the first U.S. corporate giant based entirely on the purchasing power of youth. "We find ourselves in situations similar to Carnegie and Sloan," Randell intoned. With the old-line firm of Auchincloss, Parker & Redpath managing the underwriting syndicate, N.S.M. went public in 1968 at $6 a share. In two years of frantic stock swapping and cash deals, Randell acquired 27 companies (a student-insurance concern, a poster maker, the publishers of Europe on $5 a Day). N.S.M. sales reached $68 million last year...
Project participants will meet weekly in open session to work on developing the common computer language which is the Project's goal. The first meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. tonight in M. I. T.'s Sloan Building...
...these will be presented unmodified in fresh and colloquial translations. Others, like the new off-off-Broadway Roundabout Theater production of Oedipus, will alter the text in order to link it more closely to contemporary minds, sensibilities and responses. It is important to note that the playwright, Anthony Sloan, a pseudonym adopted by the Roundabout's artistic director, Gene Feist, has not tampered with the basic myth. Oedipus has murdered his father, married his mother, sired an incestuous brood, and his eyes are gouged out. What Sloan has done, albeit with lesser aesthetic power and wit, is what Anouilh...
Awareness of Death. Sloan's locale is a presidential palace in a Caribbean republic in the early 1930s. His emphasis is on death, ritual and the family. The family is presented as a verbal killing ground where people prepare for real death. The ritual of death itself is a coup de theatre, a mock bullfight complete with toreador costumes in which the killers and the killed are all humans. The conceit works in that both Greek tragedy and the bullfight derive their heightened drama from an imminent awareness of death...
...Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Oedipus and Jocasta's daughters, Antigone and Ismene, are very young and silent. Sloan, however, has drawn on all versions of the Oedipus myth, and in his play the daughters are teen-agers or older, both articulate judges of their parents. Antigone is a haughty spitfire, Ismene a dutiful but skeptical daughter. Unlike Sophocles, Sloan includes the incestuous pair's son Polynices and implies a homosexual relationship with Jocasta's nephew Haemon. A very up-to-date household, indeed. When Oedipus is bent on throttling Haemon at one point, Jocasta begs...