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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are too many disturbances due to oversized props or sudden sound effects, it is only because Ibsen's stage directions (for example: "A jet of fire shoots into the air from the yacht, followed by thick clouds of smoke: a hollow report is heard... Gradually the smoke clears away: the ship has disappeared.") demand technical wizardry far beyond the capabilities of the Loeb. Peer Gynt's production staff should have accepted this, instead of burdening the stage with contraptions planned to meet the author's specifications that only sap the play of its dramatic strength...

Author: By Ira Fink, | Title: Too Many Frills in the Norwegian Woods | 5/8/1975 | See Source »

...must think the Israeli Cabinet especially thick not to have been aware, as events in Cambodia and Viet Nam have shown, just how illusory Kissinger's wizardry really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Apr. 28, 1975 | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

...administration is taking its time--and great pains--in issuing its long-awaited prounciamiento on the Student Security Patrol, Tuesday, the two-member faculty panel probing the student nightwatch group over the last three weeks submitted its final, half-inch-thick report to Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taking Care | 4/26/1975 | See Source »

...their coarse, nimble ponies, they rode like centaurs. They made cloaks from tanned scalps, and the skin of a right arm would furnish a container for their arrows. ("The skin of a man," noted Herodotus, who could seldom resist a piquant detail, "is thick and glossy, and whiter than almost all other hides.") To relax, they got uproariously drunk on thick wine from the Black Sea area, which they quaffed from the leather-bound skulls of their foes, or they would dump marijuana seeds on red-hot stones and breathe the smoke. Fortunately for archaeology, they buried their dead kings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold of the Nomads | 4/21/1975 | See Source »

Early one morning last February, Eli M. Black, 53-year-old chairman of United Brands Co., created a major mystery by smashing a quarter-inch-thick glass window in his Manhattan office and plunging through it to his death on the pavement 44 floors below. Black's relatives said that they knew of nothing that might have driven the executive, who was a descendant of ten generations of rabbis and a former rabbi himself, to take his life. Business associates also were puzzled-though they noted that his company, a gangling conglomerate, had lost $46.8 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: Energy, Bananas and Israeli Cash | 4/21/1975 | See Source »

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