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Adapter-Director Burt Shevelove and Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim have teamed up to employ Aristophanes as a springboard for the sort of romping farce that they achieved together with a Plautus original in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. The result this time, while thoroughly amiable, is more tentative and less hilarious, chiefly because the Aristophanic model does not offer as robust comic material as the Plautine...
Within a year, Morgan had assumed leadership of the ACLU's Atlanta office, which became a nucleus for ACLU activity in southern civil rights cases during the sixties. From that springboard, Morgan headed the defense in Reynolds v. Sims (1964), which established a precedent for federal intervention in state reapportionment schemes--specifically on the principle of one man, one vote. He also argued White v. Crook (1966), which ended the exclusion of women and blacks from juries. The latter case was the first in the current series of constitutional arguments for women's rights...
Rockefeller unconvincingly denies trying to use the commission as a springboard to the presidency. Two weeks ago, the Senate Appropriations Committee shelved a White House request for a $1,000,000 federal grant to the commission, on the ground that it is a potential vehicle for Rockefeller's political ambitions. Questions have also been raised about the $1,000,000 gifts that Rocky and Brother Laurence each gave the commission; the gifts could be construed as violations of federal law, which now places a $50,000 ceiling on the amount that any presidential hopeful, or his family, can spend...
...dimensions will carry him. The picture book insert not only fleshes out the scenario, but gives the listener an almost tangible hero. At the same time there is that hint of Townshend mysticism. The idea of fusing the band's personality into one character serves as anchor and springboard...
...command posts, and light planes scour the rough terrain to search for suspicious activity. To make their search easier, the government is evicting 15,000 resident blacks and creating a ten-mile-wide cordon sanitaire along Rhodesia's 800-mile frontier with the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, the springboard for most of the guerrilla activity...