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When American actors tackle a play like The School for Scandal, they often get jittery and are tempted by the safety exit of farce or the urge to humanize characters that are basically stylized commentaries on such moral vices as slander, hypocrisy and deceit. To its credit, New York'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Smarmy Aplomb | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

Throughout the northeastern U.S., June's heavy rains greened the countryside in splendid style, creating luscious lawns, luxuriant sprays of roses -and a mosquito crop that is big, noisy and vicious enough to turn the average picnic into a Schuhplattler exhibition. Says Dr. Thomas Bast, associate medical entomologist of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Days of Whine & Roses | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

Most of the builders, as Blake is warned, are rough as cobs. But Joe Santo, whose lats and traps are so spectacular that he is a cinch to become Mr. Southeast, is another matter. He is not only an athlete of mythic skill but a knockabout saint whose sort last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Fiction | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

> The West Point cadet's path to graduation is studded with booby traps. He can be "skinned" for a dirty uniform, shaggy hair, a dusty room and a host of other minor offenses. Cadet Joachim Hagopian, 22, of East Longmeadow, Mass., collected 107 demerits for the first half of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Decisions | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

Aside from the picturesqueness of it all, however, a thatched roof provides several definite benisons. Its thickness (about a foot, on the average) keeps noises out and it is a great weather insulator as well. But there are some drawbacks: once a thatched roof begins to deteriorate, birds find their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Raising the Roof | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

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