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...setting-both the one in which the drama was written and the one in which it takes place. Updating a play, even if it means only minor rewriting of the script, requires the most caution and understanding of all. To take an obvious example, recklessly pushing Shakespeare into the '20s can erase important themes along with the "wherefore art thou...
...until the appearance of the Father Brown mysteries in the early '20s that readers discerned, in his vast output, a sense of the author's bedrock beliefs. The tales followed a bumbling, intuitive priest who understood evil more profoundly than any policeman. Chesterton said he based the character on the qualities he found in a real priest, Father John O'Connor, but Brown was, in fact, an idealized projection of his creator...
...might be similar to the proposal that Nitze explored with his Soviet counterpart, Yuli A. Kvitsinsky, last summer. According to that scenario, later rejected by both Washington and Moscow, the U.S. would base 75 cruise missiles in Western Europe while the Soviet Union would pare its arsenal of SS-20s...
...tank treads or tires. The missile is MIRVed, carrying three 150-kiloton warheads, each with its programmed target. The SS-20 is a replacement for the antiquated SS-4 and SS-5, which nevertheless remain deployed and are under negotiation in Geneva. The Soviets have deployed some 340 SS-20s in the past six years-a rate of more than one a week-scattered over 38 sites. Two-thirds are west of the Ural Mountains, pointing westward with at most a 20-min. flight to West Germany. Sums up a Bonn defense official: "There is no Soviet weapons system...
...editor and critic, Peter Quennell has been one of England's radiant literary lights for more than half a century. He is also an assiduous collector and chronicler of eccentrics, a pointillist of foible, a raconteur without fear or peer. His latest memoir, drawn mostly from the '20s and '30s, is named Customs and Characters...