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Word: watchfulnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brustein's books, The Theatre of Revolt (1964), Seasons of Discontent (1965), The Third Theatre (1969), and Culture Watch (1975), are not only great reading--written in a direct, lively style that combines the best features of journalism and literary scholarship--they provide an approach to both modern drama and the current American theatrical scene. His writings, diverse as they are, display a common vision: the theater is not, and never has been isolated from day-to-day human existence and the problems of any given society--it is created out of those problems and fed by the artist...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: A Brustein Portrait | 12/9/1978 | See Source »

When Crews' father left the swamp to go home to Bacon County, Georgia, he took a little money and a gold watch, inscribed "To Ray Crew, Pioneer Builder of the Tamiami Trail." He left behind a testicle, lost to the raging case of gonorrhea he contracted during their brief and unsatisfactory coupling...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Like Georgia Mud | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...expect you to watch most popular shows, but you do not represent most of America," Carswell--who won the Dana Reed Prize for undergraduate writing while at Harvard--added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NBC Executive Urges Viewers To Consider T.V. a Business | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...that time, however, Boston was oblivious to anything occurring outside the vicinity of Landsdowne St. Summer in Boston is, after all, not much more than a humid, sweaty fantasy, two months of radiant heat and soaking t-shirts designed simply to occupy the space between semesters. And to watch baseball, which is far more of an opiate than religion, at least as far as Bostonians are concerned...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Remembrance of Things Past | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...also rings up her astrologer for consultations, keeps a sharp watch on the configurations of the heavens, and divines that Capricorns like herself "are aggressive and workaholics. I am certainly a workaholic. Capricorn women also display an incredibly cold sexuality." She is quick to add, how ever, "I can't have an affair of the body without one of the mind. It's not in my morals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gaudy Reign of the Disco Queen | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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