Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spake Allan Albert, producer-director of Boston's longest running show on the method behind the magic that has made "The Proposition" for seven years the country's most celebrated improvisational troupe. His explanation, though accurate, was tantalizingly superficial enough for me to wonder just what stuff this illusion is made of--what invisible strings are being pulled in a show like this? After having been "propositioned" a now for several years, I resolved that it was high time to go behind the scenes and find out for myself...
...ride the 45 miles out to Bridgewater once each week and for an hour and a half you teach a guy to read. Your first time down you wonder how some convict who has been labeled criminally-insane or sexually-dangerous is going to react to an occasional visitor from Harvard. You meet the guy, try to find something to talk about, administer a battery of standardized reading tests. At 9 p.m. you finish. You say good-bye to the guy you've tutored and don't know whether to smile, look sad, or even look at him. Then...
...help you, but one or two resentful corrections officers can block your path by telling you that you're late (even if you're not) and that you'll have to wait an hour before a guard can leave his station to escort you to the prison school. You wonder why this occurs in a institution with over 400 guards for less than 9000 inmates...
...December, and it may turn out to be close to 8% for January, when the latest figures are released this week. Many automen complain that the Ford Administration stuck to an anti-inflation policy too long; they are pleased that the Administration has tilted policy more toward expansion, but wonder whether it has gone far enough...
...CONSERVATION. I wonder, theoretically, if it's right that the auto industry should chew up as much raw materials as it chews up. I don't think we've done as much as we should with scrap. A lot more should be done with recycling materials...