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...tyro, an initiation into the ways of Washington can be harsh, as Economist Martin Feldstein has been finding out. Two months ago, Ronald Reagan nominated the highly regarded president of the National Bureau of Economic Research to become chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. But at his confirmation hearings Feldstein quickly got a foretaste of what awaits him in the task of giving advice on economic policy to an Administration whose program is under attack...
...youngest director ever signed to a long-term Hollywood studio contract. At 21, he was putting Joan Crawford through the paces of a Night Gallery tale. He directed eleven episodes of various Universal series: a The Name of the Game here, a Columbo or The Psychiatrist there, displaying his tyro talent, learning the business. "TV taught me to think on my feet," he says. "You have six days to shoot 50 pages of script. TV is a well-oiled machine. Either you roll with it or it rolls over you." He rolled, all right: within three years he had directed...
Clark has been able to move so quickly not because of his own knowledge - he is a tyro in foreign affairs - but because of his intimate relationship with Reagan. In 1967 Clark was promoted from Cabinet Secretary to Governor Reagan's chief of staff. He served with such dispassionate efficiency that Reagan has trusted him ever since. Last year Clark reluctantly agreed to go to Washington as Haig's deputy. He got off to a painful start when his Senate confirmation hearings demonstrated his unfamiliarity with foreign issues...
...Reagan Administration would likely focus its energy on a relatively small number of high-priority items. Reagan would move quickly to submit a tax program and a revised 1981 budget containing some spending cuts. Another early goal: some attention-getting elimination of Government regulations that affect business. A tyro in foreign affairs, Reagan probably would move more slowly in that sphere. But because he is a suspect stranger in capitals abroad, he would be likely to make some early gestures of reassurance to U.S. allies. One crucial difference between Reagan and most previous Presidents taking office for the first time...
...Circle in the Square Theater, the clash of wills between King Pentheus of Thebes and the god Dionysus is somewhat muffled, despite Michael Cacoyannis' incisive direction and his crisply idiomatic translation. John Noah Hertzler's Pentheus is less a king than a kinglet, a petty tyro tyrant, and Christopher Rich's Dionysus is no god but a godlet, a prancing posturer devoid of awe, might and mystery...