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...HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING is a comedy hit by Robert Anderson (Tea and Sympathy) that deals with a common human preoccupation-sex. In four playlets, Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard make faces at sex, shed tears over it, spoof it and sneer at it. The audience, for the most part, just laughs...
...HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING is a comedy hit by Robert Anderson (Tea and Sympathy) that deals with a common human preoccupation-sex. In four playlets, Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard make faces at sex, or shed tears over it, spoof it or sneer at it. The audience, for the most part, just laughs...
...were intelligent, thoughtful and energetic, so they were concerned, argumentative and politically active. Like George III, TIME has been viewing these people as a rabble, a mob; their political demonstrations (when the polls are denied them) are called "riots," and every spokesman for the people is a "politician"-with sneer...
Concert band has never been anyone's favorite musical medium. Composers shun it, music majors sneer at it, and conductors aspire to higher things. Plagued by a limited repertoire and a not-too-sophisticated audience, bands are usually reduced to playing Sousa marches and arrangements of the prelude to the second act of Lohengrin...
...rapidly pushing the 110-year-old N.E.A. into a tougher stance of its own toward improving teachers' salaries and working conditions. Organized primarily by professors of education, the N.E.A. has long been dominated by its principals and superintendents rather than by its teacher membership, and A.F.T. officials sneer at it as a "company union." Traditionally favoring discreet pressure rather than open protest, the N.E.A. has done its most effective work at the state level, where its sophisticated lobbyists have cajoled legislatures into sharp increases in state school...