Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INDIANS. Playwright Arthur Kopit has taken up the cause of the American Indian and has tried to mesh segments of a vaudeville-styled Buffalo Bill Wild West show with segments of Hochhuth-Brechtian didactic polemicism. The idea is to spank the audience while making it laugh, but the whole thing refuses to cohere. Stacy Keach, however, plays Buffalo Bill with relish, flamboyance and charm...
...idea was suggested by Jesse Birnbaum, our San Francisco bureau chief since last January after 18 years as a writer and senior editor in New York. Traveling west with an Easterner's (Passaic, N.J.) eye. Birnbaum was immediately struck by "how much of the California legend was true-the climate, the geography, the hordes of new Californians shucking off old ways and values and experimenting with the new"-sometimes compulsively, sometimes casually. "The more I got to know San Francisco, the more intrigued I became with its life style, its easy atmosphere, the narcissism of the city...
...girls were overwhelmingly in favor of the exchange. Of the 155 girls voting, only five opposed the idea. But only 98 girls said that they would like to move to Lowell House. Thirty refused to move at all, even from one floor to another...
...cardinal errors in wei-ch'i is containment." Boorman said, applying his theory to the present Vietnam situation. "Your opponent can work behind his lines and cut your forces to pieces. The idea is to surround your opponent by forming strong bases of support...
...contrasts this idea of an evaluation with the Harvard evaluation which was carried out 25 years ago. That evaluation began with the recommendation that the then Commissioner of Schools be fired. He wasn't and the rest of the report was scrapped. Since then Harvard has largely kept out of the city schools, with each side suspicious of the other...