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...Radio Morocco, the country's government-run station, four young Moslem women sat at their desks one day last week. All wore skirts, high heels and jangly jewelry. When the office closed at 6:30 p.m., two of them powdered their noses and left for home without more ado. But the two others swathed themselves dutifully in djellabah and veil; they were bound for families which did not object to their leaving the house, but demanded adherence at home to the customs of old. Says Princess Aisha: "The veil itself is not important. What is important is that...
...Speaking to Jesuits now meeting in Rome in Extraordinary General Congregation (TIME, Sept. 16), he urged Jesuits and members of other orders to eliminate "without ado and with courage all superfluous things," including tobacco. Also to be shunned: pleasure trips and extended vacations. Plainly convinced that it is better to smoke than to burn, a spokesman for the hard-smoking Jesuits said: "Tobacco is usually a luxury, but it can be a necessity with some people...
Question: "What play of Shakespeare deals with jealousy aroused by a traitor out of pure hatred?" Answer: "Othello, of course." True; but Shakespeare had also treated this subject previously, for it is the main theme of Much Ado About Nothing. And he would return to it again, with self-interest substituted for pure hatred, in Cymbeline. The material for all three variations on the theme came from earlier sources...
...quick succession Shakespeare turned out three romantic comedies around 1600: Much Ado, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. The last is by far the best; but the second best of Shakespeare--as of Brutus--is impressive. Still, the serious main story of Hero and Claudio in Much Ado is pallid stuff, and is based more on accident and coincidence than a Hardy novel. Shakespeare obviously took this tale just as a frame to hang some original fun on. What impresses us (as it did Berlioz in fashioning his last opera) is the sparkling and witty comedy of Beatrice...
Performances of Othello will continue the rest of the summer, with The Merchant of Venice joining the schedule on July 10 and Much Ado About Nothing on August...