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...captive audience to seasonal radio commercials. "Colorful sweaters to rival the surrounding hillsides with their brilliance," gushed one commercial in New Hampshire. Along the byways, picturesque barns bulged with suspiciously fresh antiques, and every front yard seemed the site of a garage sale of faded castoffs rescued from the attic...
...magazines that people instinctively preserve for their historic import. But most Americans today who have set aside issues of the recent momentous weeks to relive the tumult with their children and grandchildren will, 50 years hence, confront what today's grandparent usually finds on a trip to the attic - crumbling, yellowed newspapers inexorably turning to dust. A few years ago an assistant professor of librarianship at the University of Washington named Richard Smith devised a simple formula for ensuring the survival of history-making newsprint. His innovation is ripe for use now. The recipe, which is meant solely...
Masks, used in Attic productions to destroy any facial play, are not used in the Loeb's version. But the added screen of foreign language between us and the actors and actresses could have been removed to an even greater extent, had the cast made more use of facial play...
...Attic times, men would have performed both men's and women's roles. Because of the oppression of women in ancient Greece and the misogyny apparent in Euripedes's writings, it is only poetic justice that several female actresses should excell in this production. Julia Gilbert, as Helen, conveys the beauty of the language as well as the comic, romantic and semi-tragic sides of her personality. The cast as a whole--and particularly Gilbert and Ann Bailen, as the portress--pay careful attention to the Greek meters and rhythm, which speed up or slow down, depending on the feeling...
...total composition of words gives intensity of thought and feeling to the work. This emotion is impossible to translate into any other language and is better communicated in the poet's native tongue. On these grounds, the Loeb Ex can justify its current production of Euripedes' Helen, performed in Attic Greek for a predominantly non-Greek speaking audience...