Word: solomons
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...songs and the belief in personal and communal dignity that lay behind them. So he showed the roots of the farmers' anti-fascist slogans and collective ambitions in simple, legendary stories, and the way the values of the stories made the anti-fascist slogans make sense, like Azdak's Solomon-like decision that Grusha keeps the governor's child because she won't try to pull him from a circle in a tug-of-war with the governor's ambitious widow. As a result, The Caucasian Chalk Circle has a traditional, tender, open quality that Brecht rarely allowed himself...
Nearly all Rosenwald's actors are also excellent, most of them in several different roles, although Tom Yellin, Charles Weinstein, Jomo Schur, Kristen Wiley, and especially Mary Tisco seemed to me to stand out the most. Suki Taylor is a remarkably winning Grusha. Neal Solomon dominates things whenever he's on stage, as the profane and bribe-demanding judge whose tenure is remembered as a brief golden age of justice because he's willing to fine for atheism the rich farmers who don't like miraculous explanations for their provisions' presence in a poor peasant's larder--"I ask Your...
Emmett G. Solomon, the courtly 64-year-old chairman of San Francisco's Crocker Bank, presented his board with a hand-picked successor last August. Not surprisingly, the candidate was Lester Peacock, 43, the bank's president and a fellow traditionalist, who seemed particularly interested in bankerly decorum. Peacock once remarked to his associates: "No gentleman ever wears brown shoes." The bank's board turned Peacock down flat because Crocker's pin-stripe conservatism had simply not been paying off. While more innovative, bolder California banks were gaining ground, the earnings of Crocker, the nation...
Peacock retired to his ranch in Texas, and Chairman Solomon went headhunting. Last week, with the board's enthusiastic approval, he introduced his catch-a big one. Thomas R. Wilcox, 57, former vice chairman of New York's First National City Bank, will succeed Solomon as Crocker's chairman and chief executive on April...
Harvard's mythical city title turned into a real myth last night as Northeastern knocked off an astonished Crimson squad, 60-58, at the Huskies' Solomon Indoor Athletic Field...