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Producing Moliere is always a hazardous adventure. He originally wrote his plays for the Hollywood aristocracy at Versailles which demanded a more ethereal and intellectual theater than a modern audience is apt to prefer. The language carries the entire weight of the play, and the actors must do a virtuoso job of speaking the couples so that they do not lapse into a sing-song monotony. The current Lowell House production of Le Misanthrope overcomes most of these difficulties with a competence which occasionally turns into a braven assurance, and lets some of the funniest lines ever written break through...
...what is most surprising and welcome in the film has nothing to do with originality. Its achievement lies instead in the handling of traditional problems of dramatic presentation. Scenes are well staged, lines well spoken, and the attention to medieval detail is apt. Tynan's screenplay is reasonably faithful, and the Shakespeare, though somewhat clouded, is never obscured. Polanski is no longer so eager to play enfant terrible, and it is not his radicalism that is impressive but his competence, that dullest of virtues...
...understand that the veracity of Mr. Gordon's views on China derives from the bitter experience of his having spent two years under house arrest as a prisoner of the Chinese. But the insistent question which J has hopelessly muffled is whether this unhappy episode is apt to make Mr. Gordon a dispassionate critic of China...
...have any moral or poetic sense at all, it's hard to dislike a guy like Farber--even if his writing and the films he's apt to praise eschew moralism and poetics. All the words he uses and the statements he makes come from deep in the center of the man. They hit you with the impact of felt experience and funky artistry...
AFTER being interviewed by TIME'S Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, the late author John P. Marquand likened her probing technique to psychoanalysis. The comparison was twice apt. Galvin strives to get behind her subject's façade, and she has long been interested in the behavioral sciences. These qualities made her an obvious choice for a principal role in establishing our Behavior section three years ago. As our national Behavior correspondent, she has contributed to most of the major stories the section has run. Virginia Adams was also a charter member of the department, first as its researcher...