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...need to believe is as dominant a factor in this so-called enlightened age of ours as it has ever been. To quote Anton La Vey, who spearheaded the contemporary Satan boom, "Barnum said that a sucker is born every minute; with today's population explosion, there are two born every minute." Your article on the psychics would indicate that indeed a third is born every minute: a parapsychologist...
...ANTON CHEKHOV wrote The Three Sisters is 1900, four years before he died. Russia in 1900 was not a very calm place. Lenin and Trotsky were in exile after a police crackdown on factory agitation. Corruption in government and business was widespread, and the peasants were as hungry as they'd always been. Chekhov's play focuses on the aristocracy, who were trying to insulate themselves from the rest of society, so it doesn't present direct comment on any other people's problems. And the aristocrats had no problems, except that they were bored and didn't know what...
...City Center Acting Company from New York City is doing three plays at Brandeis this week--Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters (Saturday), John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (tomorrow), and William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (today, with an extra performance at 11:30 this morning). It's a good company, and they're all good plays. 8:30 p.m., Spingold Theater at Brandeis...
BILLED BY ITS promoters as a symbol of friendship between the Vietnamese and American people, Sunday's concert at Sanders attracted a small but enthusiastic audience. Violinist Joseph Silverstein, concertmaster of the BSO, and pianist Anton Kuerti, artist in residence at the University of Toronto, presented a varied and exciting joint recital to raise money for the rebuilding of Bach Mai hospital, which American bombers destroyed a little over a year ago. The musicians gave no speeches; their playing was eloquent and moving...
Joseph Silverstein, volinist, Anton Kuerti, pianist. Works of Schubert, Liszt, Bach, Franck. Tickets $3-$5 ($1 student discount). Benefit for the rebuilding of the Bach Mai Hospital. Sunday, March 10, 2 p.m. Call 492-0489 for information...