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...SOME swell institution it must be that throws together bang-up productions of Anything Goes, Gypsy and Pajama Game all in a season. Harvard can boast one of the niftiest informal musical comedy ensembles around. For the truth of the matter is, while they incline to shuffle their names and titles around a bit, the same little pikers in back of those other two shows--let alone much of the more resounding Cambridge entertainments over the last three years--are responsible for the latest and in lots of ways the most dazzling of them. People like Stu Beck, Bob Bush...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Pajama Game | 5/2/1968 | See Source »

Those who object to the war have always done so for three basic reasons, and the Tet offensive helped swell the ranks. The three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Debate in a Vacuum | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

...would be fascinating. With the brazen beat and the salacious lyrics, it becomes a walk on the wild side, a joy to see. You sit there, watching the girl, all the motion and color, in the groove with the sound. Stop the music! No more orange electronic notes to swell the picture. No more foot-tapping in the aisles. But the camera lingers on that suddenly shoddy Roxbury street. Absolute silence now. And you've been had. You were riding high, and it was a trick, an illusion. The silence tears rudely into your mood. In Desire it happens again...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: Desire Is the Fire | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...Gulf, where a modern Russian trawler with sophisticated electronic gear lurked near by with obvious curiosity about what was going on. The Cachalot was dangled beneath the surface from a 100-ft. boom while Martin, insulated by a hooded wet suit, tried to focus on it. When a wave swell, of which he in the ocean depths was unaware, caused his target to heave up out of camera range, he swam up after it, only to swim even faster the other way when the ponderous bell descended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 19, 1968 | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...dearth of traveling companions. In Maryland, Governor Spiro Agnew announced that he would organize a draft-Rockefeller movement "in response to the ground swell of public opinion that I have seen developing." Sixty-six prominent Republicans in Oregon set up a similar group, vowing they would conduct a Rockefeller write-in campaign for the Oregon primary should he refuse to allow his name on the ballot. Said Governor Tom McCall: "If this effort can help bring Rockefeller into the Oregon primary, then its sponsors will have performed a public service of national magnitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Waiting for Rocky | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

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