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...seaport of Ostend, where he was born in 1860. His father, raised in England and Belgium, and Belgian mother indulged him shamelessly. He lasted exactly two years in school, lived in a world of fairy tales, nightmares, the fascinating clutter of his parents' curio shop and an attic that was "full of horrible spiders, shells, old clothing the color of rust and blood, red and white corals, monkeys, turtles, dried mermaids and stuffed Chinamen...
When the 1960-61 season opens next week, the new shows will have to go some to match these favorites, which have come through the summer without getting half baked: Toys in the Attic, the latest play by Lillian Hellman, deftly explores the character of a weak ne'er-do-well (Jason Robards Jr.): Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man, set in a Mineola, I.I. synagogue, brilliantly and with high humor admixes ancient rite with modern psychology; The Miracle Worker owes its excellence to the superb performances of Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, as they re-create...
...Social Democrats put forward a new policy, designed to convert West German Socialism from a purely working-class party to one with an appeal for middle-class voters as well. Under pressure from Brandt-who would not take the nomination otherwise-the Socialists drastically cleaned out their ideological attic. Tossed into the dustbin with many other souvenirs of Victorian Marxism was the most cherished Socialist goal of all: nationalization. And abandoning their onetime fuzzy flirtation with the notion of neutralism, the Socialists now pledged to keep West Germany firmly in the Western alliance-including NATO. If all this seemed...
...rock-'n'-roll idol's pompadour; Fiorello!, a sunny salute to New York City's late Mayor La Guardia; and West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet in jazz time. Among the straight dramas still pulling customers from the hot pavements are Toys in the Attic, in which Lillian Hellman pits poor Jason
...strange, melancholy child who could spend hours in the corner of his mother's attic studio turning out nightmarish scenes of dark-skinned, contorted people and wild-eyed, gaping crocodiles and owls. He kept a dead bird hanging above his workbench, and when he was not painting, peddling or going to school, he endlessly read Gide. In time the sad-faced boy in checkered shorts became a familiar sight at the Café; des Deux Magots. From $1, his price slowly rose...