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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's Democrat James Oliver Eastland. and the House Judiciary Committee, starring Pennsylvania's Democrat Francis E. ("Tad") Walter, co-author of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. handed the President and the U.S. their answer. Its net: the U.S.'s prestige and the U.S.'s good faith could go hang...
...military policy against Soviet expansion, says Kissinger, has been inhibited by "our notion of aggression as an unambiguous act [i.e., a direct attack on the U.S. or Western Europe] and our concept of war as inevitably an all-out struggle" resulting in the enemy's "unconditional surrender." Against indirect Communist aggression by "internal subversion, intervention by 'volunteers,' domination through political and psychological warfare," U.S. doctrine has no flexible alternative between total war and peaceful inaction, because it is geared to "total" concepts. Neither psychologically nor militarily has the U.S. been willing to take risks or properly shape...
With this Tennessee Williams-toned opening scene, audiences at Tanglewood's Theater-Concert Hall were introduced last week to a new one-act trilingual opera entitled Tale for a Deaf Ear, by Manhattan Composer Mark Bucci (rhymes with kootchy). For the Gateses, things quickly go from bad to hideous; Laura tosses a glass of Scotch in Tracy's face, and Tracy, rising to slug her, falls to the floor, dead of a heart attack. A repentant Laura kneels and prays that he be restored to life. While a pit chorus explains what is going on, three legendary miracles...
This lackey's lackey is Brennan. With cruel precision, Kowalski gives Brennan his last assignment-on the Feast of Corpus Christi. Assignment: to kill a mysterious ex-Communist who was known during the Spanish civil war as El Carnicero (The Butcher). Brennan cannot approach confession with this last act-to-be on his soul. In the end, he knifes his victim only to discover that he killed the wrong...
Greene's psychological insight enables us to examine both the conscious and subconscious minds of the characters, one of whom complains to James, "You've spoilt our certainties." Greene's dramatic craftsmanship is not yet complete, and the first act betrays a number of weaknesses. But the third act goes pretty deep. It is act two, however, that is Greene's lofty achievement in this play. Its two scenes--especially the second, with its study of the alcoholic Catholic priest--are classic confrontation scenes of the first order. This act constitutes some of the most moving, forceful and compelling theatre...