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Brown's most valuable knack is for picking new plays. Long Wharfs productions of David Storey's The Changing Room, about a lower-class rugby match, and The Contractor, which literally raises a tent around contemporary alienation, moved to Broadway to win, respectively, the Drama Critics Circle best-play awards of 1972 and 1973. Brown may complete the hat trick this year with Peter Nichols' black comedy The National Health. These plays are all British. Brown, who receives 20 scripts a week, is regretful but firm about his evident Anglophilia. "I have not yet found American playwrights...
...unless you are novice number two, and you are not with an experienced party, your first subzero night might be spent scurrying from tent to tent in your skivies, looking for a samaritan to share a sleeping bag with...
...will race at speeds of up to 180 mph--to get a better idea of the difficulties of the race to come. It is cool and quiet on the track as it winds through the hills and gullies, copses and boulders. By the time we are back at our tent it is 4:30 a.m. In the distance, across the track, the bog still smokes...
...increase should above all remind consuming nations that high oil bills are a fact for the present, and should fortify their conservation efforts. Still, as consumers harken to Secretary Kissinger's contention that the cartel can be weakened through conservation and cooperation, the new dissent in the OPEC tent could be a faintly heartening omen...
...reasonably successful palliative up to now has been the creation of a "literacy corps" of high school graduates who spend most of their two-year military service teaching school. The corps has a program in which teachers travel with nomadic tribesmen and at each stop pitch a white school tent alongside the tribes' black goat-hair tents. The Shah also decided that each schoolchild should have a free daily glass of milk - an impossible task for the country's modest dairy industry. Even imported powdered milk would not improve the situation...