Word: tonight
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John Riseman, a Cambridge resident, will present tonight a petition signed by Cambridge residents to the City Council Ordinance Committee to hold "construction permits, demolition permits and new occupancy permits by tax exemption institutes...
...beginning of the play and in between scenes, the proscenium arch lights up, and downstage left a character appears to tell a story about Scottie. It is this theater, "tonight," and we are in the audience "to pay tribute to Scottie Templeton," who is celebrating his 51st birthday and has just emerged from successful cancer treatments in the hospital. At first these interludes seem irritating and gratuitous, as though Slade were trying to disguise a one-set, chronologically ordered comedy by Pirandello-ing it up a bit. But afterwards, you can appreciate how these anecdotes should have worked: this...
Tribute builds to its final scene, in this theater "tonight," where Scottie walks onstage to our cheering, and slowly informs us that his life has been a failure--an endless parade of gags. He couldn't reach out to anyone. Why? He doesn't know. Maybe because there isn't anything below the surface, or maybe he's afraid of knowing what's below the surface. He embraces his son. There is no punch line...
Today the councilors will participate in a panel discussin on "Personnel Management and the City Council," and listen to a presentation of "Intergovernmental Relations: Federal-Local" to be given by William Spring '59, a member of the White House domestic policy staff, before they leave tonight...
...going to have a lot to say about the chimpanzee tonight, and I can't help but adding that in the Congo basin there are a series of peoples who, in explaining the world as it is, uninhibited by Western theology and with a certain amount of candor, include the chimps as one form of humankind...