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Launched 15 years ago by Tyrone Guthrie as a wild dramatic dare, Stratford has evolved into a slightly smug civic investment. As a festival it has be come a creature of habit which in theater is not always a loss. Habit decrees the invited guest star-but what if the key actor is as singularly miscast as Alan Bates in the title role of Richard...
...admit that we had attempted something beyond our powers. But you know, we may just succeed. And if that happens, I hope that the many thoughtful, dedicated Americans who opposed the policy will be glad to acknowledge that their country is sometimes capable of even more than we should dare to dream...
...brought up on S.S. Pierce's groceries," remarked Oliver Wendell Holmes a century ago when a rival merchant sought the patronage of that autocrat's famous breakfast table, "and I don't dare change." A bulwark of proper Bostonian life for most of its 136 years, the haute cuisine grocery chain has long filled an epicurean niche in U.S. gastronomy. With its own coat of arms adorning a distinctive red label on canned goods, and the largest line (5,000 items) of privately packed fancy foods in the world, S.S. Pierce sells its delicacies not only through...
Even pets were affected. Said a dachshund-laden woman on one stairway: "I don't dare let him climb. They got discs, you know." In some buildings, striking service employees-among the few New York workers who actually have a sense of service-winked at the labor laws and carried their favorite tenants up in the elevators anyway. Many apartment-based professional men, forced to close their offices, threatened to sue striking Local 32B and/or the landlords for their losses. On the other hand, a psychiatrist on Central Park West kept up his thriving practice by couching his patients...
...popular routes must make reservations well in advance. Other travelers may fret over dusty parlor cars and schedule lapses; TEE passengers can only find fault with luxuries. Complained a Frenchman who rode the Parsifal recently from Paris to Hamburg: "These German waitresses look so stern one doesn't dare pinch their bottoms...