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...extraordinary stroke of casting genius, Birnbaum has placed Josh Rubins, of all people, in the role of Richard, Sid's teenage nephew who learns the joys of love and drink during the play's course. The part has a lot of laughs, but Rubins never milks them. He is splendid, and so is Sheila Hickey as his intended...
...leadership which an increasingly activist and even "liberal"-if one can use that word-M. B. A. student faction is demanding. Apparently unwilling to concede that more and more M. B. A. students (especially black and chicano students) are determined to put an end to the Business School's splendid and serene isolation from the larger University community and from larger societal issues in general, the conservative faction of the Student Association is engaged in a gallant- but, in the last analysis-futile effort to maintain the apathy and conservatism which have been the hallmarks...
...Your recent Essay "Charisma" [Oct. 17] was splendid and timely, but I must take issue with your characterization of Clement Atlee's postwar government in Britain as "dull, bureaucratic but quintessentially normal." The Atlee regime inaugurated six years of the most far-reaching social reconstruction in British history. It established the vast welfare state at home and presided over the dissolution of the British Empire abroad. The Atlee regime may have been dull and bureaucratic, but it most assuredly was not "quintessentially normal...
...expand the money supply at a fairly steady rate of 2% to 6% a year, depending on economic conditions. Friedman often debates economic policy with Burns on holidays in Vermont, where the two economists have vacation homes next to each other. Not surprisingly, Friedman hailed Burns' appointment as "splendid." Friedman admits, however, that "Arthur takes a long time to make decisions, and once he has made them, it is very difficult to get him to change his mind." Economist Raymond J. Saulnier adds that Burns "is ponderous and a little pontifical." Because of these qualities, some other economists predict...
...primary source of Met strength this year lay in the fluid arms of Pitchers Tom Seaver (season record: 25-7) and Jerry Koosman (17-9), who were backed up by a supporting cast of splendid young hurlers. But with the exception of Ryan, the 22-year-old righthander who tossed seven innings of brilliant baseball in the final game, the pitchers were way below par during the playoffs. In the first two games Seaver and Koosman compiled embarrassing earned-run averages...