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Role Fitters. It was almost easy to fit actors to the roles as they emerged in the script. Actor Thomas Gomez was a natural; without a bit of special makeup he was Georgy Malenkov's double. Luther Adler fitted smoothly into place as Molotov, Oscar Homolka as Khrushchev, E. G. Marshall as Beria. Stalin was harder to cast. After considering Laurence Olivier and José Ferrer, Coe decided on Melvyn Douglas, whom he had admired as Clarence Darrow in Inherit the Wind...
...surprising that Mortimer J. Adler, who has repeatedly plunged himself into the thorniest problems of education, should tackle this ancient theme. Already as a Columbia undergraduate, Adler nagged philosophy professors by exposing certain of their contradictions, snubbed revered Educator John Dewey by spoofing pragmatism as bits of useful information at the price of wisdom. As a philosophy professor, he campaigned against universities' traditional system of departmentalization and specialization. As an author, he tried to summarize (in his The Great Ideas-a Syntopicon) the history of Western thought (to be found in the Hutchins-and Adler-edited Great Books...
With a staff of more than 20 scholars, Adler pored-over the works of hundreds of Western thinkers, says that he has made his selection without prejudgment, lets each writer speak as a contemporary in a conversation that began with Protagoras. His avowed purpose, neither agreement nor evaluation, was to bring great minds together. The only initial agreement that he could find among them was that "they all attribute [freedom] to man and agree that it has reality and meaning in human life...
Then There Were Three. But as each of his protagonists is analyzed down to what Adler considers his fundamental position, only three basic views on freedom emerge though, within each, violent arguments may continue to erupt. The first, what Adler calls the freedom of "self-realization," relates freedom to circumstances: a man is free if he can actually live as he desires. This is the position of Hobbes, for example, who views all laws as an infringement upon freedom. The second basic definition of freedom characterizes it as an acquired state of mind, and Adler dubs those who uphold...
...great moments, and it provides an ideal vocal showcase for a dramatic soprano. In the last five years, Maria Callas has virtually made the role over in her own fiery image (she will sing it again in November with the Dallas Civic Opera). But San Francisco Opera Director Kurt Adler heard Soprano Farrell sing Medea in concert form, decided to give the opera its first U.S. production as the curtain raiser for San Francisco's six-week season. The production is tailored to make the most of Farrell's opulent voice and to minimize the defects of acting...