Word: wayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...KNOW THERE'S going to be trouble when the director of a show says to you as you come through the door, "Don't be too harsh." So you walk in and notice the ingenious way white tape has been laid over the flutings of the columns in the Winthrop Junior Common Room, giving them a somewhat classical appearance...
...what four years can do to a person? Another man deprived of sex: "Yes, I was a Harvard man, too."), they more often fall flat (Kinesias...Senator Edward Kinesias!). Dionysus delivers many of these awkward lines, which are difficult to digest, but not nearly so difficult as the leering way that he recounts the tale of his "love" for Aryadne. Dionysus's role has nothing to do with the body of the play, except that the production, already a mercifully short hour-and-a-half, would hardly merit an intermission were it any shorter...
Auerbach said sports diplomacy would be comparatively cheap and effective. "If we flooded a country with athletes the way we do with cocktail-drinkers, it might have been a different ballgame altogether...
...Missionaries, By Mary McCarthy. (Harcourt, Brace, $10.95): If Iran is still on the map by the time Christmas rolls around, the basis for this novel's plot is depressingly relevant. A committee of liberals sets off for Iran to uncover the sins of the Shah's regime. On the way they get hijacked and what follows is what critics recognize as McCarthy's most politically aware creation...
Diaghilev, By Richard Buckle (Atheneum. $22.95): For the same price you can take Amtrak--one way--to New York and see the Diaghilev exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But what then will you put on your coffee table? Though it makes a great living room conversation-piece, Buckle's work is also a splendid introduction to the Diaghilevian/magnificence on which much of Russia's cultural accomplishments in the first third of this century were based...