Word: versions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THEATRE COMPANY of Boston opens this week with two one-act plays that collectively make up probably the funniest evening of theatre currently running in New York. The plays are Adaptation, Elaine May's version of the game of life as viewed from the perspective of a TV quiz show, and Next, Terrence McNally's sketch about a 48-year-old man undergoing a humiliating draft physical. Two actresses near and dear to the hearts of Cambridge theatregoers, Susan Channing and Joan Tolentino, will be in the cast...
MUSIC SCENE (ABC, 7:30-8:15 p.m.). A latter-day version of "Your Hit Parade," with James Brown, Buck Owens and the Buckaroos and the Beatles performing the top songs. Premiere...
...freshman, all-nighters are necessitated by weekly expos papers (i. e. glorified compositions required by Harvard's compulsory writing course). No one ever begins them until the night before they're due, and no one ever completes them until a few minutes before class. It's the academic's version of Beat the Clock. Unfortunately for masochists, the competition falls off sharply by second semester. For by then everyone has learned that at Harvard no one really expects you ever to turn in assignments on time. Normally, the whole University operates about three weeks behind schedule...
...lived, breathing in an air pocket, for some time after the accident? Under Boyle's strictures, Kennedy's attorneys would not have been permitted to produce expert testimony to challenge Farrar's thesis or his qualifications. Meantime, every news story from Edgartown would recirculate the Farrar version, enveloped this time in the dignifying aura of a legal proceeding...
France is much in thrall to its own version of the heroic past. Accordingly, Gramont invokes, analyzes and denigrates Jules Michelet, the great French Romantic historian whose writings helped to "create" France's epic past. When Gramont describes French intellectual life, he gives a useful though jaundiced look at Descartes, including his life and times, his seminal Discours de la Méthode and the Freudian analysis of the philosopher's three dreams, which symbolized the difficulty of understanding the universe...