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...other points: first, the implication that there could be a connection between the Watson incident and my resignation from Harvard is absurd, as I thought I had made clear to Mr. Joel Kramer. In the early fall of 1966, quite a bit before the President had heard from Crick or Wilkins, I told Mr. Pusey that I would have to leave before normal retirement in order to support my young children. My actual resignation came in February and I signed a contract with Atheneum at the same time; this was approximately four months before the Corporation vetoed the publication...
...play is immensely theatrical, sensuous and intellectual. Apart from being Pirandello's greatest work, Henry IV is a fascinating precursor of the entire theater of the absurd-the anguish over existence in Sartre and Camus, the guerrilla warfare against ossified language and the mass mind in lonesco, the bleak, alienated vision of Beckett, the sense of man eternally acting a role in Genet, and the use of the stage as a self-contained universe in Pinter. In a towering display of the actor's craft, Kenneth Haigh confers unbrooked, unhinged regality on the title character while coiling...
...INDIAN WANTS THE BRONX and IT'S CALLED THE SUGAR PLUM are one-acters marking the propitious off-Broadway debut of 28-year-old Israel Horovitz. Plum is an absurd love waltz between a boy and girl. Bronx boils up a cauldron of terror with the litter of abused humanity, as two street punks ridicule, badger, and finally knife to death a bewildered East Indian on his first day in New York City...
...absurd to think that any rich nation can survive when most of the world is starving," a Belgian diplomat said. "No one will be safe unless we build a solid middle-class of countries...
...vague, impractical and "absurd" anyway, said Louis Nizer, who appeared for the film industry. He pointed out that eight of Dallas' banned films had subsequently been on television in full view of any twelve-year-old. Adding that six cities were already copying the Dallas law, he asked that it be thrown out. If it is not, he said, it would be an "intolerable burden" on the film industry. The court will hear no further argument on the subject, but will render a decision some time before recessing in June...