Word: variously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black Star Theatre will be casting roles for Melanctha, a dance drama adapted from the story by Gertrude Stein. The title character is a mulatto woman; the play traces her relationships with a black doctor, two black women, and various whites in her community. Using the basic plot-line of the story, the adaption attempts to translate the rhythm of Stein's writing into actual dance and musical rhythm. The producers welcome anyone, inexperienced as well as experienced. Tonight and tomorrow, again at the Loeb, starting...
ALICE MITCHELL RIVLIN, 47, since 1975 has been director of the Congressional Budget Office, which was created that year to give objective advice to Congressmen on the cost and effectiveness of various Government programs. Under Rivlin the CBO has annoyed Republicans by reporting that President Ford's spending budget was inadequate for the needs of the economy and nettled Democrats by branding the Carter Administration's estimates of what the energy program would accomplish "overly optimistic...
...taste: in effect, the Anastas Mikoyan of architectural ideology. Certainly Johnson has, with dazzling skill, traversed the whole range of 20th century manners: from the idealistic severities of the International Style (whose name, as an architecture critic in tandem with Henry-Russell Hitchcock, he coined in 1932), through various essays in neo-historicism, to Post-Modernism...
...future, and American astronauts have again landed on the moon. Emerging from their spacecraft, they perform such familiar chores as setting up a TV camera, placing various scientific instruments around their landing site, and collecting rocks and samples of the dusty lunar soil. Then they return to the ship to prepare for more far-ranging exploration. When the spacecraft's big hatch reopens, the astronauts scoot out, pedaling away as if they were on bicycles...
Conference workers are presently attempting to obtain funds from various University sources, in addition to the Student Assembly, for transportation, administration and accommodation costs. Expenses for the conference will be split evenly among the participating colleges...