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This play is enjoying its world premiere at an enterprising six-year-old regional theater, Stage/West, located in Springfield, Mass. Like several other such theaters, Stage/West tries to make room in its repertory season for new and serious drama. In recent years, some of these plays have reached New York and won critical acclaim. What is of more importance is the increasing willingness of regional theaters to trust in the receptivity of their local audiences to new works rather than continually playing it safe with revivals of classics or Broadway hits...
Journey Through the Past contains much documentary footage-of Young on tour, performing with Crosby, Stills and Nash and the Buffalo Springfield-intercut with stillborn fictional parables about a scholar who tromps through picturesque locations, searching for himself, or perhaps just for a guitar. There are intellectual asides (Stephen Stills ruminates that "some day words, and the reassurance of words, won't be necessary-soon"), social speculations (a discussion of concert ticket prices segues into a rendition of Find the Cost of Freedom), and heavy images (a needle stashed inside a Bible) of terror and salvation. There is also...
Varsity at Springfield...
...this season, including an 80-33 thrashing by mediocre Army and a 75-38 thumping by a greatly improved Navy squad. "We're a little disappointed so far," Brown director of sports information Rod Commons said yesterday. "We didn't figure to beat all those teams, but the Springfield loss (64-49) especially hurt...
...sudsy neighborhood political debate in his immigrant father's cafe and bar back in Springfield, Mass., O'Brien rose to play a unique national role. He managed John Kennedy's spectacular unseating of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in 1952 and directed Kennedy to the presidency in 1960. As chief congressional lobbyist for both Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, he led the drive that ended in the most significant social legislation since the days of F.D.R. Yet O'Brien was also with Jack at Dallas and Bob at Los Angeles. He agonized with Hubert Humphrey after managing Humphrey...