Word: classically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performers are as durable or as justly adored as Mary Tyler Moore. During the past 15 years she has become an unpretentious symbol of sophistication in a medium where that quality is usually considered a punishable offense. As Laura Petrie, the slightly daft heroine of the classic Dick Van Dyke Show, Moore demonstrated that sitcom suburban housewives did not have to be domestic ninnies chained to a kitchen sink. With her easy wit and sturdy intelligence, almost single-handed she brought TV out of the Lucille Ball-Donna Reed...
...Mather Drama Society production of Looking Glass, a new musical based on Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy as adapted by Rick Lake '80, is just such a frustrating disappointment. There was so much word of mouth enthusiasm spread about this show--the music alone was said to be worth the price of admission--that Saturday's audience was expecting one of the best student-written productions ever put on here. But you can't always get what you want, and unfortunately Looking Glass has serious flaws which keep it from living up to its hype...
...child has endured and is likely to endure again if it does not escape from home. The screening room file cabinets are filled with case histories: babies with cigarette burns on their tongues; small children whose backs have been scarred with human bite marks; innumerable children with the classic child-abuse injury: the telltale "spiral fracture," a twisting, lightning-shaped bone break caused by extreme twisting of a spindly arm. But having invoked the memory of such things. Belisle gets a measure of relief by correcting the statistical record. "Those are the most dramatic cases," he adds. "Mostly...
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Pat and Edwin kept reinvesting their profits and borrowing to acquire more land. Today the family owns 1,900 acres and rents another 1,600?underscoring a surprising point about modern U.S. farm economics. Tenant farmers these days are no longer the classic Southern sharecroppers, who have almost disappeared, but are often expanding agriculturists like Benedict who own land too. As it grew, Pat's farm absorbed four others; in three cases, he razed and burned the houses, uprooted graceful shade trees and returned all the land to crops. Says he: "Those farms had lived...
...desired for so long. One, with a happily married ex-London policeman, lasted some 40 years. He no longer needed to live in his novels. Instead, he wrote nonfiction and spoke out occasionally on current affairs. Two Cheers for Democracy (1951), a collection of political essays, was a classic expression of the detached, liberal temper. His reputation as a novelist grew as his output disappeared...