Word: weiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peter Brook's direction of Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade...
...housewives know it, Wall Street lawyers know it, college presidents and students know it, politicians and generals know it, Congressmen and businessmen know it, I even think President Nixon knows it: America wants peace [Oct. 17]! ANNE WEISS Los Angeles...
Died. Seymour Weiss, 73, a grand vizier of Louisiana Kingfish Huey Long's political empire; of a heart attack; in Baton Rouge. A onetime New Orleans barbershop manager, Weiss was the man to see about practically everything once his friend Long became Governor in 1928; he ladled out patronage, determined how party funds would be spent -or misspent-and served as Long's most trusted adviser. So entrenched did Weiss become that he remained a power after Long's 1935 assassination-until 1940, when he was finally put behind bars for mail fraud...
...Paul Weiss, L.H.D., philosopher and teacher...
Virginia Woolf once wrote that after reading certain novels she felt as if she were expected to write out a check. Such sermonettes, with their demand for moral reparations for evil deeds of the past, infest the modern theater. If one were really to believe Hochhuth (The Deputy), Weiss (The Investigation) and Arthur Miller (Incident at Vichy), one would conclude that the playgoer is responsible for every human crime and flaw since Adam ate the apple. The latest playwright to join this tiresome mea culpa crew is Arthur Kopit. His play Indians argues that Americans were once beastly...