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...major sports events an ocean and a world apart stepped ("one leg at a time," as the sportswriters say) into trouser controversies. Early last week, during the final round of the U.S. Open Golf Championship at Oakmont, Pa., Forrest Fezler ducked into a portable comfort station after finishing the 17th hole and emerged to play the last hole historically (also horrendously) in shorts. Last week at Wimbledon, England, where tennis shorts have been customary since 1946, Trey Waltke competed in long white Bill Tilden-like flannels, complete with an old school tie for a sash, until Ivan Lendl excused...
Imagine that, buried in a forgotten carrel at the back of the British Museum, a hitherto unknown comedy by the 17th century playwright William Congreve had been discovered. Fancy further that his comedy was put not on the stage but on film, with every world-weary epigram and convoluted conceit intact. Such a notion must have occurred to the English experimental film maker Peter Greenaway. With The Draughtsman's Contract, which he wrote and directed two years ago, he has restored the Restoration sensibility. Here is a comedy-mystery laced with Triple Sec humor and stately, raunchy characters...
...east of England, less than 100 miles north of London, the Fens draws its name from the fact that it was swampland reclaimed for farming beginning in the 17th century. This rich earth is gradually falling into the hands of interlocking conglomerates, and the play implies that the Japanese may eventually own it. Against this backdrop Churchill fashions a kind of Under Milk Wood as it might have been seen through the bleak, baleful eyes of Thomas Hardy...
Columbia spokesman Fred Knubel said yesterday that last April officials moved this year's May 18 commencement a day up to avoid a conflict with the holiday, which ran from the evening of the 17th to the evening of 19th. Besides "some inconvenience, there was nothing controversial" about the situation, he said...
...disarmament. Princeton Classicist Nita Krevans (women were first admitted in 1972) is exploring how the publication of manuscripts changed the way the authors thought about their compositions. Historian Mordechai Feingold is studying early modern intellectual history, including the work of Britain's John Rainolds, who in the early 17th century helped translate the King James version of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew...