Word: aug
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THEATER COMPANY OF BOSTON, University of Rhode Island, Kingston. Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King, an absurd drama about death, July 18-21 and July 25-28; Arthur Miller's autobiographical After the Fall, Aug. 1-4 and 8-11; a play by Günter Grass, The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising, Aug...
...Minneapolis. The three opening productions, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, John Arden's study of political dissent, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, and The Master Builder, Henrik Ibsen's treatise on creative genius, rotate through August. Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui opens Aug. 6, and Merton of the Movies, by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, joins the repertory Sept...
...laws. In the Senate Judiciary Committee, a coalition of conservative Midwesterners and Southerners, ramrodded by South Carolina's Republican Strom Thurmond, riddled Joseph Tydings' gun-control bill with escape-clause amendments, leaving little hope for enactment of a meaningful law by a Senate racing to adjourn by Aug. 3. In the House, Veteran Emanuel Celler, a doughty proponent of stiff gun laws, concluded sadly that he lacked votes to overcome a House Rules Committee roadblock. Though Celler won support for a measure banning interstate mailorder sales of rifles, shotguns and ammunition, he had to compromise by promising...
...Midsummer Night's Dream, while Tartuffe adds Gallic spice to the Elizabethan fare. On July 22, The Three Musketeers swashbuckle their way on stage, and on July 23, some Chekhovian melancholy is introduced in The Seagull. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot provides a 20th century touch beginning Aug. 13. The season ends...
...separated from others and cut off from supplies by the army's ever-tightening clamp. "This type of struggle gives us the opportunity not only to turn ourselves into revolutionaries, the highest level of the human species, but it also allows us to graduate as men," he wrote on Aug. 8, still confident of victory. Two weeks later, his tone had changed: "The situation is becoming anguished. The rnacheteros [trailblazers] were suffering fainting spells. Miguel and Dario were drinking their own urine and Chino was doing likewise, with the ominous results of diarrhea and cramps...