Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...laws to work in founding Germany's Salem School at Baden-Baden. Headmaster Hahn flourished until Hitler came to power and jailed him for loudly defying Naziism. Britain's Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald petitioned Germany's President Hindenburg, who freed Hahn to go to England. While Salem continued fitfully in other hands, Hahn started a new school at Gordonstoun on the bleakly beautiful Morayshire coast of Scotland...
Greenburg is at work on a massive book (100,000 words so far) calling for integrated teaching in U.S. education. Passionate on the subject of "uneducated educators" (especially college presidents), he says that education will return to its proper role of "perspective" only when it rediscovers teachers with "the intellectual guts to expose themselves to criticism and improvement." For five years Greenburg has exposed himself on San Antonio's commercial station WOAI-TV, driven his viewers to read one "great book" a week and sit still for the torrent of gibes, jokes, sneers and slang that he delivers with...
Tryout Shades. On precarious Broadway, where months of work can end in one morning's disastrous reviews, some shows are too big to be destroyed by the critics and Camelot is bound to be one. Last year Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music had so much pre-Broadway momentum (a then unprecedented advance sale of about $2,000,000) that it crashed through a barricade of unenthusiastic reviews, and will probably run for another two years. Camelot, with more than $3,000,000 worth of tickets already sold, may find reviews ranging from rave to grave...
...forgotten that Costume Designer Adrian had died soon after beginning work on the show last year. A wardrobe mistress' husband was found dead in their New York apartment. The chief electrician was hospitalized with bladder trouble. Actor Burton took on a virus that almost choked off his singing voice, and the traditional "company cold" spread to Sir Lancelot (Robert Goulet), was even worse in Boston than Toronto. A chorus girl ran a needle through her foot onstage. Frederick Loewe, who himself suffered a severe heart attack two years ago, was temporarily felled by influenza. "We are all quitting," said...
...Clair de la Lune. Up in 1204, Loewe ("Sir Aggravate," as Lerner nicknames him) broods under the fond eye of his current, 24-year-old girl friend; he calls her "baby boy," she calls him "baby bear." For hours each day, Lerner joins Loewe at the piano as they work together on four new songs, including one called The Seven Deadly Virtues, plus the problems of telescoping four Act I scenes into two, straightening out Act II, deepening Mordred's villainy all of which requires new lines, new musical bridges, and scenes long enough to allow complicated scene shifts. When...