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Bangladesh's main difficulty is apt to come from a leadership vacuum should Yahya refuse to release Mujib, the spellbinding leader who has led the fight for Bengali civil liberties since partition. All of the Awami Leaguers who formed the provisional government of Bangladesh in exile last April are old colleagues of Mujib's and have grown accustomed to handling responsibilities since he went to prison. But running a volatile war-weakened new nation is considerably more difficult than managing a political party. The trouble is that none of them have the tremendous charisma that attracted million-strong throngs...
...Christ, Dan Stone follows the pattern set by his crowd. (The problem, it would seem, of making Christ a clown is that clowns are more apt to follow than to lead.) At times, his tone becomes overly solicitous--like a travel agent describing the most suitable road to heaven--but mostly he's the kind of good time Charley you'd be happy to include in any rag-tag gang. As Judas, Lloyd Bremseth has less to do; Godspell being as nonlinear as it is, he is more Christ's alter-ego than he is Christ's adversary...
...compromise Israel. Afterward Mrs. Meir told newsmen: "I went away with the feeling that there is definitely better understanding of the Israeli way of looking at it. I guess that's the most one can ask of a friend." She still wanted Phantoms. "Our neighbors are much more apt to refrain from war and more inclined toward negotiations when Israel is a strong Israel...
...Department of Linguisties ends with a certain irony. While these linguists assure us that the English language is not unduly prejudiced against women, we note with interest that apparently only three of the seventeen signers are women, the last of whom is identified laconically as "Secretary". What an apt symbol for the subjection of women in our society! Whatever the linguistic value of 'marked' and 'unmarked' members of linguistic pairs, is it not curious that common usage often marks 'Secretary' as female and last in line? Laura Mavis Gordon Teaching Fellow in Slavic Languages and Literatures Assistant Tutor in Eliot...
...difficult task to make an American audience sit through a play in which the characters speak in verse: we'll make the necessary effort for Shakespeare, but we're not used to it, and it sounds--well, phoney. Especially when it rhymes. Wilbur's translation, however is so wonderfully apt and witty that it's a pleasure to hear it spoken. There are few trite or forced rhymes. And it's a novel and delightful experience to find oneself laughing at a particularly unexpected yet apt rhyme. With apologies to Ogden Nash, it's greater talent to make one laugh...