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...report, correspondents in the U.S., Europe and India interviewed agronomists, nutrition experts and government officials. In Rome, TIME's Erik Amfitheatrof went through stacks of U.N. documents to find the key statistics for the principal stories on the crisis and possible solutions, written by Associate Editor Burton Pines of the World section. In a team approach we often use on major projects, other departments joined in: articles on climate changes and the process of starving to death were contributed by Science Writer Frederic Golden and Medicine Writer Peter Stoler with back-up from Reporter-Researchers Allan Hill, Brigid...
...latest film draws not only on his youth but also on Europe's turbulent prewar years. In an interview with TIME'S Erik Amfitheatrof in his Rome office, Fellini unreeled an intensely personal vision of his work and his times...
...sixth New Theatre Workship production, In the Lion's Mouth by Erik Amfitheatrof, is full of sound and fury, signifying little that has not already been well explored. But it is, for all its excess philosophy, an exciting play. In fact, its main fault lies in the effort Mr. Amfitheatrof has made to achieve excitement. His characters indulge in a good deal too much swearing and beating upon one another--both gems of stock dramaturgy that are below the author's general high plane of plot construction...
Good theatre need not be didactic. Well done cavalry charges are superior even esthetically--to sophomoric preaching; but Mr. Amfitheatrof's work leans too often on loud voices and poised fists for its dramatic effect. With the innate tension of his story a sympathetic Italian police commissioner rescuing a defected Communist from the Yugoslavs and from the fascist ire of the commissioner's son's political chief--the author need not have stressed action so much...
...Lion's Mouth, I should repeat, was exciting and generally enjoyable. The very fact of an all-student production on a regular New Theatre Workshop schedule is a very pleasant sign for Harvard drama. Bringing this season of locally written plays to an end, the HDC production of Mr. Amfitheatrof's work promises much for next year...