Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleasant, jug-eared young man of 20 who likes to fly planes, drive sports cars, play the trumpet and the cello, and who once delivered a very creditable Macbeth on a school stage, Charles is stuck in history. It is his blessing and his burden to be destined to become Charles III, the 41st sovereign of England since the Norman invasion. He will inherit a throne that, for all the erosion of empire and the straitened circumstances of the scepter'd isle, remains the most prestigious in the world...
That kind of nose-thumbing rejection of institutional convention-in the year of the most profound academic disturbances in American history-was more or less predictable. So was the disruption at Harvard's graduation, where Bruce Allen, a Students for a Democratic Society member, was hustled off the stage after describing the commencement as "an obscenity"; 150 students promptly walked out of the assembly. More surprising was the fact that such instances of revolt were relatively rare. Across the nation, the awarding of degrees to graduating seniors was surprisingly placid, sentimental and traditional. Dissent was spoken of by student...
...last winter, Dick Cavett, the subject of that stage-door chatter, was caught in the coffeecake crunch of morning television. Up against such formidable foes as Dick Van Dyke, The Beverly Hillbillies and Andy Griffith -all rerunning for their lives-Cavett found himself and his talk program scrambling for ratings. While insisting that they liked the guy a lot, ABC nonetheless canceled the show. But not for long. Cavett is back on the network -in prime time...
Died. Martita Hunt, 69, one of the great ladies of the English stage and screen, who enthralled American audiences as the sinister Miss Havisham in the 1947 film version of Great Expectations, and in 1948 as the wondrously wacky ragbag old crone in Broadway's The Madwoman of Chaillot; in London...
Limitless Variety. Cranko has gone the mandate one better. He has given Stuttgart not only a superbly knit, brilliant young company but has also played on his dancers' strengths to form a style that is like none other. At any given moment in a typical Cranko ballet, the stage bristles with a seemingly limitless variety of movement. Instead of bloodless, assembly-line precision, the Stuttgart's 38-member corps is more apt to suggest a 38-ring circus, with a panoply of gesture and stance that dazzles the viewer...