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Sweeney Todd is like a mediocre Victorian novel. Filled to overflowing with weird characters and wild situations, the play nonetheless contains a large number of less funny scenes along with the gems. And the time element at last predominates. After the first two hours, as after the first two volumes of Henry Esmond, no amount of wit or slapstick can keep the audience from desiring a rapid...
John Meck, Treasurer of Dartmouth College, said, "I have always thought that tax deductions were an important element in a substantial amount of giving." He did not include the small gifts up to $100, but pointed out that the Ivy League colleges were now pushing for larger alumni gifts of $1000. He noted that these gifts would be affected by a changed tax structure...
...name; his voice, which had been familiar and accented over the mike in Burr B, here assumed the mellow intimacy of an all-night disc jockey. With the students in the living room, he was at home, scratching his head, wrinkling his brow, perpetually relighting his pipe; in his element. Interpersonal contact is Goodman's religion (it is, he asserts, his primary impetus in sexual activity with both men and women) and he has perfected the establishment of contact to a high degree of art. He maintains, correctly, that we live in a society starved of genuine communication...
...blame." Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon pleaded with U.S. citizens to "pledge ourselves to fight this tendency of hatred and violence." And Dr. James R. Allen, a Baptist minister in Dallas, said from his Thanksgiving Day pulpit that Kennedy's death was triggered by just one "element in our city" but that the "white heat of a hate-filled atmosphere allowed the necessary warmth for this element to crawl out from under the rocks to be seen...
...volumes; 286 pages. Braziller. $25. With 96 reproductions of Shahn's paintings and more than a hundred reproductions of his drawings, the disturbing power of Shahn's lonely visions is apparent-in wiry filaments of sparse, nervous lines, in the awkward bulk of bodies out of their element, in chalky faces whose sad eyes peer from sooty sockets. The effect, as in all Shahn's work, is of gritty reality viewed through the distorting lens of a dream...