Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When geniuses in every nation Hasten us toward obliteration Perhaps it'll take the dolts and geese To drag us backward into peace...
RHINOCEROS, an Ionesco parable about a man's isolation, will be performed by A Contemporary Theater, Seattle, Wash. (July 22-Aug. 2). Robert Loper will brave it out as Berenger, the man who manages to resist conformity, Arne Zaslove will direct, and film projections will take the place of props to provide the scenery...
...Technology in ay fields races toward the day when man, wishing to zap his fellow man, can choose from an infinite arsenal of macabre techniques. While we are waiting for a weapons scientist somewhere out there to stumble upon a peaceful use for his gases and bacteria we can take heart in the words of Ogden Nash...
Certainly few Presidents in U.S. history have had to deal with more difficult problems. Moreover, Nixon was elected by a minority. This fact has persuaded him that he must maneuver and enlarge his hold on the middle ground rather than take dramatic positions on one side or the other. From all appearances, he is following the politics of zigzag, giving way on one point to gain on another. His surrender on the Knowles appointment, for instance, was motivated in part by the need for conservative votes on the surtax and the anti-ballistic-missile system. There was much talk last...
...dealing here with a whorehouse, may be an unfortunate choice of metaphor, however crudely it does demonstrate how this particular comedy often goes. Certainly, the most hilarious bits (and they embrace a whole gamut of comedy) belong to Joan Tolentino, as Miss Gilchrist, a social worker who "takes insults in the name of our insulted saviour." Since she's more Mary Magdalen than Virgin Mary, she ends up having to take a good many, too--which is all to the better, since she lets go with the most wonderful shriek everytime someone in the cast tries to feel...