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...list. At the top stands Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist. Many recent Broadway scores have sounded as if they were composed by a Waring Blender. Sondheim is a man with an inventive musical mind; his lyrics have a spartan simplicity, yet they are witty, incisive and playful. Of George Furth, who wrote the libretto, one can only say: Hosanna, finally a book with intelligence. Producer-Director Harold Prince surpasses himself in staging this show and invests each scene with an electric tingle of surprise, delight and authority...
...only has Prince brought the form of the musical up-to-date with Company, but he has done the same thing with its subject matter. George Furth's book takes us on a tour with 38-year-old bachelor Robert (Dean Jones) of his (unhappily) married friends in an attempt to find out why "love is what it's all about." It is one of the only musical books I know of that does not, for one second, pander to the audience. There are no quick solutions, no easy jokes, no sentimentality of any kind. No one knows...
...liberal steering group is larger and less defined. It consists of walzer; John Womack, Jr., assistant professor of History; Roderick Furth, professor of Philosophy; Arthur Solomon, professor of Romance Languages; Wassily Leontief, professor of Economics: Juan Marichal; Cary Marx, assistant professor of Sociology: Gerald Holton; professor of Physics and Martin Peretz, assistant professor of Social Studies...
...Maurice H. Seevers. One smoked a pipe: Texas' Dr. Charles A. LeMaistre. Five were nonsmokers: the Army's (formerly Cornell's) Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones, Pittsburgh's Dr. Emmanuel Farber, Utah's Dr. Walter J. Burdette, Columbia's Dr. Jacob Furth, Indiana's Dr. lohn B. Hickam. (Halfway through the study, Dr. Terry switched from cigarettes to a pipe...
Died. Albert Lavenson Furth, 60, assistant editorial director of Time Inc.; of cancer; in Manhattan's Harkness Pavilion. A gentle, dryly witty Californian who came East with Hearst's old International News Service, Furth joined TIME in 1930 to write the PRESS and AERONAUTICS sections, in 1936 became a member of FORTUNE's board of editors, became executive editor in 1942, a post he held for 14 years until his appointment as an overall editorial planner for all Time Inc. publications...