Word: stein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joseph Stein and Robert Russell, the authors of Take Me Along's book, have not shortchanged their musical of this sorrow. They have written a stunning, if not perfect, musical comedy book. As the script weaves gracefully around Bob Merrill's songs, the show remains wittily upbeat, all the while quietly asserting the downbeat aspects of the characters...
...show ran for a year, but had another producer (such as Hal Prince, whose West Side Story had revolutionized the Broadway musical the year before) besides Merrick done it. Take Me Along's life would surely have been much longer. (It is interesting to note that co-author Stein went on to write two great serious musicals, Fiddler on the Roof and Zorba, for Prince...
...favorite economist, and the saying in Washington is that "when Arthur talks, Nixon listens." The President has said that his choice of Paul McCracken to head the Council of Economic Advisers was made on the advice of "my good friend," Arthur Burns. It was Burns who also recommended Herbert Stein as a member of the three-man council and George Schultz to become Labor Secretary. His closeness to Nixon raises a somewhat ironic problem. The Federal Reserve is supposed to be independent of the President, and those who cherish this concept usually worry that the President might put too much...
ERMYNTRUDE AND ESMERALDA by Lytton Sfrachey. 75 pages. Stein and Day. $5.95. A novelistic joke by the author of Eminent Victorians protests repression through the letters of two sexually inquisitive girls. Written in 1913 and rather cutesie-pie, with terms like pussy cat and bow-wow for private parts...
...Herman Stein, owner of a jewelry store on Madison St. stood in the doorway of his shop with a pipe after demonstrators broke one of his windows...