Word: spate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That a Harvard Paper should bother to print up such a spate of letters, however, comes as a great shock...
...form. SR Executive Editor Ronald P. Kriss says that there is a "cash-flow crisis." It is the second such crunch since last summer. Executive Committee Chairman Frederick S. Wyle, who represents the investors behind Veronis and Charney, confirmed last week that more funds are needed but denied the spate of rumors that one or more of the monthlies are about to fold. As part of a refinancing last fall, said Wyle, "we had planned to look for more money later. We've moved the plan forward...
Chapin believes that artistic matters should be left to artists. He regards himself strictly as an administrator "with veto power." Pending the arrival next season of Artistic Director Rafael Kubelik, this policy has created a certain decision vacuum, one result of which has been a spate of scheduling snafus. Looking over the spring rehearsal calendar, the manager of one conductor discovered his client and the singers were scheduled for rehearsals on different dates. "The Met used to be run like an efficient concentration camp," he growled. "Now it's run like an inefficient day camp." The second half...
...touch. Then they called it charisma. Now they call it Sha-melot. Such books as Henry Fairlie's The Kennedy Years and David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest sound the knell for the '60s and its leaders. The returnee has missed the spate of Concerned Books: Soul On Ice, Deschooling Society, The Whole Earth Catalog-when Rip left, earth was only dirt-plus almost every float in Norman Mailer's Mr. America Pageant. Lose a few, win a few. He has also missed Love Story, Myra Breckenridge, The Sensuous Woman. He browses through...
...everything in the theater, the revival is an enterprise of high risk. In addition to normal hazards, it must compete with the playgoer's memories of past productions or expectations aroused in the classroom or the library. In an era of relative creative dearth like the present, a spate of revivals comes to the fore as the theater's defensive mechanism of survival. Some are delightful, some are dreadful, all are instructive; it is invariably interesting to see what the effects of time, changing values or an altered milieu have had on a classic. Some current revivals...