Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...craft of writing for the stage." He admires many playwrights who are working now. "Arthur Miller still writes a hell of a play," he said. " The Price was the most literate, absorbing evening I had had in the theatre for a long time. And Williams, of course, is the master-if he still has a gasp in him. Albee-everyone's waiting for him to do something. And Terrence McNally and Israel Horovitz are very talented too. So is Ron Cowen; he has already written Summertree and he's only...
...company in Chico. A World War II draftee-he ended up as technician fourth grade -Tarr knows the draft system from the bottom up, without having been a professional soldier like his predecessor Lieut. General Lewis Hershey. After the war, Tarr received an A.B. from Stanford University and a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He returned to Stanford for his Ph.D.; his doctoral thesis: Unification of America's Armed Forces: A Century and a Half of Conflict...
Lowell Bergman, 24, a commune leader with a master's degree in philosophy, has initiated meetings with civic leaders, police and the state attorney general's office in an effort to ease relations with the police. He has had little success, even though a report prepared by the city manager affirmed that "a high percentage" of harassment complaints were unfounded. "In a few cases police officers had been provoked," the report added. "For example, a young man waved a Viet Cong flag in the face of a police officer who is a veteran of Viet...
...artist's gift will leave Barcelona with the biggest Picasso collection in the world-at least numerically. But the canny old master has sequestered in his own private custody thousands of his mature works, and unless Barcelona gets those, too, the site of the definitive Picasso museum is still the master's choice...
...down the film's giddy aspirations. As Petrocelli, Newcomer Barry Newman must cope with the staggering improbability of the lawyer's very presence in the town. But he approaches the role with cheerful pugnacity instead of that air of insufferable concern that overlays most screen lawyers. The master craftsman in this melange, though, is Harry Gould, who portrays the guileful, geriatric district attorney. Wearing a rumpled suit and a feral gleam, he baits witnesses with soft-voiced ruthlessness and brazenly plays on the jury's sympathies. His well-modulated performance demonstrates a principle that jurists and film...