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UNCLE VANYA. Three screenings of a BBC film of Laurence Olivier's 1962 Chichester Festival production of the Anton Chekhov play. It's a great play, and with a cast headed by Olivier, Joan Plowright, Michael Redgrave, Sybil Thorndike, and Rosemary Harris, missing it would be pretty stupid. Sunday at 6 and 9, Monday at 8, at the Loeb...
UNCLE VANYA by ANTON CHEKHOV...
Although there is no sign that Western Europe is on the verge of a leftist revolution, businessmen are noticeably worried by the new style of militant Marxism. Siemens Executive Anton Peisl fears that "the mentality and vocabulary of the class struggle is gaining ground," that professors, journalists, union bosses and even church leaders now "find it chic to be as far left as possible." Members of French President Georges Pompidou's capitalist-minded Cabinet speak somewhat defensively of pursuing a "third way" between capitalism and Communism. "A Communist was once an anti-Christ," notes Le Monde Reporter Andr...
...cures. The land echoed with the sad clanking of the chains that fettered the czars' prisoners, and then with the sighs of all those thousands who continued to be banished, body and soul, after the Bolshevik Revolution. "How many mysteries does the taiga hide in its enormity!" wrote Anton Chekhov. Siberia-land of ice and tears...
Otto Kerner was different-or so it seemed. Once known as "the Mr. Clean of Illinois," a man of suave courtliness, a leader of the Boy Scouts and the Red Cross, he had gone to good schools (Brown, Cambridge, Northwestern Law), and married the daughter of former Mayor Anton Cermak. Kerner's father who had worked himself up from poverty to the federal bench, beamed with pride as he swore in his son as a US attorney. Mayor Richard Daley then recruited Kerner as a blue-ribbon candidate to run for Governor in 1960 against William Stratton, whose administration...