Word: wheeler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many observers began to sense the presence of a detailed script somewhere. It surfaced on Tuesday morning when mimeographed copies were accidentally delivered to the networks and to the BBC. G.O.P. messengers were immediately ordered to retrieve the scripts. The BBC people refused to yield theirs. "Extraordinary," commented Charles Wheeler, BBC'S chief American correspondent, as he examined the document. "How do you Americans say it? Really a screw-up." Republican Committee Staffer Kit Wisdom tried to grab the pages from Wheeler, then from Christopher Drake, a radio correspondent. "Naughty, naughty," Drake admonished her, clutching the document...
...University is the fact that it is relatively cheap to operate: it costs about one-fourth as much as a conventional British university. Indeed, the new programs at California, Texas, Maryland and New Jersey universities will even import the same materials being used in England. Explains Rutgers Provost Kenneth Wheeler: "If we can use their texts and lectures and not have to develop our own, it would mean a savings of millions of dollars...
...York City ferryboat became a Mississippi stern-wheeler for a day -tootling its way up the Hudson River to the infectious quicksteps of three Dixieland jazz bands. A ballroom at the Commodore Hotel seemed to go through a time warp to the 1930s, as kids in jeans and matrons in long gowns bobbed, swayed and shuffled to the strains of Count Basic and Sy Oliver...
...Wheeler's eyes were shining. "[It's] the greatest story of our time, the one that will dazzle the entire Christian world, the one that will cause a rebirth in religion and a revival of faith. The papyri that were found-that we now possess-are the lost source of the Synoptic Gospels, the so-called Q document, a fifth but actually the first and original Gospel-the Gospel According to James...
...shadowy figure counselling him through the play's series of flashbacks and burying him at their end. He and Walter Lott the flamboyant drill Sergeant, Barry Saider the bully and Richard Lynch the maimed hospital patient, give performances that stand out in the excellent supporting cast. Director David Wheeler stages the play without a pretention of proscenium--as if it were in his living room--and after 60 productions with the Theatre Company it might as well be. Set designer John Thornton has divided the thrust stage with a diagonal ramp into an upper and lower platform--everything from marching...