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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MINNESOTA THEATER COMPANY, Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis (through Sept. 17). The company will include Julius Caesar in its repertory, giving Director Edward Payson Call a chance to transform Shakespeare's play into a universal parable of the perils of leadership, as Rome becomes a metaphor for an existing political and climatic hot spot (possibly Latin America). Robert Pastene plays Caesar, Allen Hamilton betrays him, and Charles Keating buries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 11, 1969 | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...pursuing goals. The University had responded, however imperfectly or tortuously, to students concerns and initiatives in the months that preceded these events. If many felt that the response was inadequate, there were peaceful ways of convincing others of the rightness of one's cause, or of the need to transform Harvard's relations with the world at large, or Harvard's procedures of decision. The best way is to put forth intelligent proposals, to use existing mechanism in order to persuade others, to suggest and promote new mechanisms, to mobilize support behind such proposals--in other words, to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee of Fifteen Explains Its Decisions | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...came under strong attack from SDS, which argued that rend increases were not unintentional by-products of the University's presence in Cambridge, but rather part of a concerted action by the Universities, the Federal government, and the Cambridge City government to drive "working people" out of Cambridge and transform the City into a complex of defense-oriented industries. Because of this expansion cabal, SDS argued, any housing duced by the universities or local government would not be low-income but rather moderate and high-income, to house the technicians who would work in the plants of "Imperial City...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Harvard In Its Cities--The Housing Crisis | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...proportion of coffee in Colombia's export total from 70% to less than 50%. Still, Rocky's hosts complained that quotas and other restrictions have kept some of their new exports out of U.S. markets. One proposal made in Colombia was that foreign investors should gradually transform local enterprises into joint ventures, taking in Colombian partners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Rocky's Second Stage | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...beyond the midway to seek out and applaud Dr. Nabokov, the butterfly chaser, dealer in anagrammatical gimcracks, triple-tongued punster, animator of Doppelgänger, shuffler of similes. Prolonged exposure to Nabokov reveals much more. What he calls his "ever-ever" land of artifice opens on intriguing distances. There words transform the world into metaphor and time is held exquisitely at bay by memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prospero's Progress | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

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