Word: subway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrat. But two-term Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner has jammed the mechanism by breaking openly with the Democratic bosses (TIME, June 30) and choosing his own running mates for a third-term attempt in November. Ever since, the city's political future has been as confusing as a subway...
...prose tragedy," argues Steiner, if contemporary playwrights had modeled themselves on Ibsen and Chekhov. The weakness of this argument is that some did, without achieving any notably tragic vision. Shaw proved that there could be a laughing Ibsen, and wrote social-uplift comedies, while someone like Odets became the subway Chekhov, oozing lower-middle-class pathos...
Jean Genet's The Blacks, a savage allegory of racial antagonisms that range over the whole color spectrum, is the best bargain on the subway circuit. Genet's jaundiced view of life is also represented in The Balcony, in which the world is seen as the inside of a brothel. Rising Playwright Edward Albee has not yet gone the distance, but has built a considerable reputation on such hard-hitting one-acters as The American Dream and The Death of Bessie Smith, now playing on a dual bill. Also recommended: Anne Meacham as a superb Hedda Gabler...
When one thinks of Boston, it is hard not to think of death and decay, decline and fall. Before we drop our tokens into the subway turnstyles and begin our survey, let me tender a well-meant suggestion that this matter of cemeteries recalls to mind. If you chance to take ill during the Summer School, ask to be admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital, a fine place whose chief interest for us here is that the view of Boston from its roof is about the best in town. If you stay well, you can't possibly get up there...
...Manhattan last week the brothers, as usual, worked both sides of the Street. While Clint Jr. breakfasted with business partners to talk over details of a real estate enterprise, John left his $17,000-3-year suite at the Carlyle hotel and rode the subway downtown to the green-carpeted headquarters of Alleghany Corp. to begin making "a lot of critical decisions" about Allegheny's future. After his business breakfast, Clint Jr., too, showed up at Alleghany to listen in on the intricate briefings on company affairs. Then the brothers headed off for separate tables at "21"-Clint...