Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...musical, America's biggest contribution to the stage in this century, relies on a set of givens that has never really changed. Give 'em a couple of big production numbers, a whole lot of dancing, some love and a few funny lines, and they'll go home happy. Unless the book waxes trite beyond belief or the singers are tone-deaf, what you usually need in a musical is a lot of money and the kind of house-filling draw no producer can resist...
...Field, scriptwriter Joe Stein and song team Peter Link and Jacob Brackman '65 were faced with a difficult problem in adapting Philippe de Broca's wonderful film about World War One in a town suddenly overrun by loonies. It's a tough act to follow, and on the whole the film still comes out ahead. But the musical version remains enjoyable; certainly it is diverting...
Even if the hike in temperature were smaller-say only a degree or so-the effects might not be minor. Applied year round to the entire earth, such an increase could shift whole forests, grasslands and deserts. At the polar regions, enough ice could melt to elevate sea levels by as much as 5 m (16 ft.). That would eventually inundate low-lying coastal areas round the world, including parts of The Netherlands and the Atlantic seaboard...
...sees the assassination of John F. Kennedy as a turning point in his personal orientation, in the prevailing attitude at Harvard, and in the nation as a whole. "I identified more--much more--with the kind of political and social chaos after the assassination than with the kind of smugness that characterized the Classes one or two years before...
Brackman admits that his undergraduate career was not exactly typical of the "Best and Brightest" atmosphere of Harvard in the early '60s. "I mean, I got turned on to psychedelics while I was an undergraduate. While people were going after that whole Leary-Alpert connection, I was doing the same thing they were. My values became much more in the late '60s mode," he says...