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...this is a show about music, not a play at all but a reverent tribute to the Harold Arlens and Johnny Mercers who provided the soundtrack for the decade. Along with some terrific renditions of a few standards, like "That Old Black magic" and "Goody-Goody," writer-director Dennis Deal has, along with Albert Evans, come up with an array of new songs that lyrically and musically conjure up the period, beginning with the opening number, "Nite-Club...
...apro-divestment position to the race. They are: NewYork City Councilor Ruth Messenger '62. ConsulWashington, counsel to the House Committee onEnergy and commerce, Peter D. Wood '64, aprofessor of history at Duke University, VictorSidel, a physician and social activist, JeromeGrossman '38, an activist for liberal causes andMassachusetts businessman, and Harold Burns, viceprovost of the City College of New York...
...third of the three Rs, American students would seem to have turned around in recent years. Since 1980, standardized math test scores have been tilting upward. The best mathematicians among U.S. collegians have performed strongly. Says University of Michigan Psychologist Harold Stevenson: "Teachers, parents and children all think they are doing just fine...
Trouble was, most of these films were not about Viet Nam. Coming Home was a disabled-vet love story -- The Best Years of Our Lives with Jon Voight in the Harold Russell role. The Deer Hunter was . . . well, what was it? An incoherent parable about male bonding through Russian roulette. Bats and beautiful, it stood like Ishmael on the prow of its pretensions and declared, "Call me masterpiece." Apocalypse Now was fine as long as it accompanied its doomed, questing hero (played by Martin Sheen, Charlie's father) upstream on the River Styx; then it fogged off into fantasyland with...
...years, William Shawn has presided over his domain like a benevolent father. A shy man of gentle reason, he created a familial haven for some of the country's best writers to do their finest work in. Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, but it was Mr. Shawn, as he is invariably called, who turned the magazine into a forum for serious reportage and polished fiction while retaining its breezy urbanity. Both magazine and man became institutions of sorts: The New Yorker as an elite but powerful voice in the worlds of literature and journalism, Shawn...