Word: wagers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wager that the majority feel the twinge of anti-snobbishness (sometimes known as "slumming") that came into vogue along with Bob Dylan and "relevance" in college classes. What could be less relevant than a school which can't forget, even for a moment, its 350-year history...
...placing Six Characters in the context of a rehearsal at the Loeb, the American Repertory Theatre ran the risk of exposing its own inadequacies. But Director Robert Brustein knows how to hedge his bets, and this wager paid off handsomely. The A.R.T.'s production is funny and moving, and gets to the heart of Pirandello's often elusive drama...
...Gerard Waslen (Lou Wager, Harold Duvall), 2:38; C. Steve Smith (Wall Dubas, Mike Lebianc). 9:31; C. Jim Wallace (Dan Maillet), 17:50; H. Gary Martin (Tim McMahon), 12:34; H. Martin (McMahon, Dave Connors). 17:34; H. Afen Bourbeau (Rob Wheeler, Bill Cleary Jr.). 2:24; C. Waish (McKinnon), 9:23; C. Waslen (Maillet...
...Harvard and Yale, and the Librarian of Congress since 1975, knows all those recondite facts and more. Many more. He also knows how to put them to good use. Having gambled in the 1950s that he could retell the whole American experience in his three-volume The Americans, a wager that eventually won him a Pulitzer Prize, Boorstin is now attempting an even riskier gamble: that he can find a new way to retell the whole history of the world in 745 pages...
...magic chemistry of courage, anger and desperation that makes men wager their lives for an ideal fired Hungary into revolution last week. Unarmed, unorganized, unaided from outside, the Hungarian people rolled back the tide of Communism. They overthrew a government. They took on the Soviet army. In six days the Hungarian people made history-six days that shook the world. After the week's events, the Communist empire could never be the same. The rest of the world could only look on with a catch in its heart, while thousands who must have known they could expect no outside...