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...audience reaction. The critics had criticized the musical's shortchanging of the serious aspects of the play from which it had been adapted, Jean Giraudoux's Mad-woman of Chaillot. Apparently the authors took this prevalent criticism so seriously that they decided to drown the first act with eerie, sur-realistic doom. The audience was bored and dumbfounded, particularly considering the fact that the unchanged second act had a light, humorous tone...
...summer afternoon in 1963, a teen-age couple boarded a ski lift to sur vey the view from a peak in New York's Catskill Mountains. After lingering on the mountaintop at the Belleayre Ski Center, 16-year-old Ruth Fried man and her 19-year-old companion, Jack Katz, decided to return. Partway down, the lift suddenly rumbled to a halt. The attendant had presumably closed the lift for the day, and no one heard the couple's shouts...
...would work harder or support our mission better than himself. His enthusiasm was over powering. He had something special to give, but I couldn't immediately determine what it was. In about three months, my engineering officer recommended that the third shift be terminated - much to my sur prise. His explanation was that the young Lieut. Nixon had been so successful in performing, not through technical competence but through the sheer weight of enthusiastic leadership, that the night shift produced so well that they were even performing checks scheduled for the day shift...
...went out shopping last week, and when I came back, I saw my husband reading my copy of A Confederate General from Big Sur. When I tried to explain to him the divine nature of the book, he just laughed at me. I left him in a huff for my mother's and have sued for divorce. Do you think my actions were justified? Signed, DISTRAUGHT...
Your case is indeed a serious one. No, I am afraid I cannot justify your shopping without taking The Book with you. As I have tried to stress to all my reading Public, the owner of A Confederate General from Big Sur does not possess a material "book." He has, rather, a warm piece of earth, complete with weeds, dirt, three or four gross-thingies, and all the little strings than hang down from pieces of earth. A very drunk young Pakistani once told...