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Presiding over the play is the clown Feste, whose name doubtless came from the mock-king fest us who ruled over the old Twelfth Night saturnalia. Feste was assigned the four major songs, since Shakespeare's acting company had recently acquired in Robert Armin a gifted singer to succeed the clown Will Kempe. The current Feste is Mark Lamos, who not only has a fine voice but also plucks his own theorbo in the charming songs composed by John Morris. Freedman has also given Feste four additional singers. In the setting of "O Mistress Mine," for instance, with its lovely...
...nihilism of the terrorists worries West Germans; so does the inability-so far-of the government to subdue them. In what Chancellery Spokesman Dr. Armin Grünewald called a "tragic coincidence," the Cabinet last week adopted measures to strengthen Bonn's hand against the terrorists. The Cabinet action had no direct connection with the Schleyer kidnaping, since it had been prompted by measures tabled five months ago by the Christian Democratic opposition. The two sets of proposals, which the Bundestag will consider this month, agreed on a number of key points: 1) the trial of terrorists would...
Most of Auntie Fannie's legatees, of course, came in with items that were what an auction house employee delicately called "more decorative than collective"-meaning junk. One elderly couple thrust a collection of cups and dishes at Porcelain Expert Armin Allen and proclaimed, "These, young man, are very, very old." After examining the china, Allen observed diplomatically that "it says 'Made in Germany,' and it was not until the beginning of the 20th century that such a marking appeared." Another Parke Bernet diplomat, after examining a ring that its owner believed to be antique amber, said...
Europe appears to be the main battlefield in the war of the spooks because movement between countries is easier there than in most other areas. To prevent any extension of the conflict, the U.S. has mobilized a special anti-terrorist task force under former Ambassador to Japan Armin H. Meyer...
...Chou En-lai let it be known that China would support Japan's claim to the disputed islands, for whatever that was worth. In Washington, meanwhile, President Nixon appointed Robert S. Ingersoll, 58, chairman of the Borg-Warner Corp., as the new U.S. Ambassador to Japan to replace Armin Meyer, a career diplomat. Ingersoll has no foreign policy experience, but he is a driving, early-to-work industrialist who has built a family-controlled Chicago manufacturing business into a $1.2 billion conglomerate with global interests, including five joint ventures in Japan. The Japanese will find that Ingersoll...