Word: portentously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play proves to be a very happy choice for the launching of an ambitious new regional theater, the Hartman Theater Company in Stamford, Conn. The troupe is housed in a handsome reconverted movie house, which may be a portent of an increasingly widespread interest in the legitimate theater. Initially, the Hartman plans to put on a seven-play season, and the offerings this year will include The Threepenny Opera, Joan of Lorraine by Maxwell Anderson, and the world premiere of a play called The Runner Stumbles by Milan Stitt...
Women now know better; a thicket of prejudice and privilege remains. Christabel, however, was a portent. As she disentangled herself from the traditional female role, her independence often appeared wayward, willful and puzzling...
...exuberant recovery is supported by reports from businessmen round the country; generally they are pleased with the first signs of revival, though many are impatient for more substantial evidence that activity has picked up. "It looks like a slower than normal recovery," says Chicago Banker Edward Boss. The brightest portent so far is department-and specialty-store sales, which have spurted rapidly in recent weeks. In Boston, Filene's and other stores with fancy boutiques are getting a healthy run from shoppers, many willing to pay up to $75 for a pair of shoes, while such mass merchandisers...
...hopeful portent that TIME poses the issue of capitalism's survival and treats it seriously. But the alternatives of the future are not, as TIME thinks, a flawed but viable bumbling through as against failed socialist schemes. We must choose between the planned, corporate-dominated collectivism that capitalism is jerry-building to deal with its destructive contradictions ("socialism" for the rich) and a humane, democratic, freely created collectivism (socialism for the majority...
...conquest of Ban Me Thuot received some play, but no one pointed out that the tribesmen--however ripe Time now considers them for Communist exploitation--generally fought in the past for France and the United States. Is the apparent Montagnard defection another sign of the end of Thieu, a portent of a new national Vietnamese unity that will embrace racial minorities or just a matter of different groups of tribesmen? The Guardian, a Maoist news weekly, claimed that a French reporter killed last week by Saigon police was silenced for attempting to discuss Montagnard defection to the NLF. Maybe that...