Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shallow plot of Mattress breeds shallow characterizations. A gaggle of supporting actors is thus given freedom to attempt to steal the show, and two in particular come very close to succeeding. Peter Grand turns in a sparkling performance as the Wizard, a show-biz type turned minister. In the first act, he offers a frighteningly accurate imitation of Bob Ewbank, host of the Newlywed Game. And he walks off with the second act by virtue of an impressive display of magic tricks...
...Died. Gustave L. Levy, 66, Wall Street wizard, philanthropist and G.O.P. fund raiser; following a stroke; in Manhattan. Born in New Orleans, Levy started work in New York City at 17 as a runner for a brokerage company. He joined the investment banking firm of Goldman Sachs & Co. (current assets: $1.2 billion) in 1933 and became a partner in 1945. Beneficiaries of Levy's charity included Manhattan's Y.M.H.A., where he had left an unpaid bill of $2 during the Depression...
...into their apartments for the night. No doubt, then, hailing from Kansas means you've whiled your precious life away watching the wheat push and sway up from the clodded earth. The Indian Wants the Bronx is a half-hour exercise in existential schmaltz. West Side Story and The Wizard of Oz are cliches, too, but they exude wit and romance where The Indian only hits you over the head with sociological pretension...
...minimum standard" approach to undergraduate education is not without problems. Occasionally we encounter a student who fits the category of one-sided genius--the mathematical wizard, for example. As Bertrand Russell has pointed out, someone with the gifts of a Mozart would gain little from a conservatory. But such occurrences are extremely rare, and need not be central to a plan designed for the majority of Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates. We should always preserve sufficient flexibility to take care of these very special cases...
...Wizard of Oz at 8, Singing in the Rain...