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...twelve games out of first place to 27½ games out of first place. Last week the Yanks lost four straight to the pennant-bound Baltimore Orioles, thereby 1) dropping into the American League cellar and 2) mathematically eliminating themselves from the 1966 pennant race. Not since 1925, when Babe Ruth hit only 25 home runs and got fined $5,000 by Manager Miller Huggins for breaking training, had the proud Yankees, winners of 20 world championships, been eliminated so early in the season...
That leaves only one batting honor left for the most popular living player to snare-Babe Ruth's alltime record of 714 homers. Will Willie make it? He personally doesn't think so. "I'll never pass Ruth," he says. "Maybe some guy coming up, like Hank Aaron, who is three years younger and has a friendly fence in Atlanta now, will pass...
...What A Lovely War and The Bacchae made it quite clear that the best acting in Cambridge this Summer was at Agassiz. Woyzeck is perfectly cast. Tom Babe, his voice lowered an octave, plays Woyzeck as if he were a tormented animal. I thought at first that he was too powerful in the opening scenes, but the performance continued to build skillfully in intensity. Babe is great with props; whenever his hand touches the butcher's knife, you can't take your eyes...
Peter Weil as the Drum Major and Carl Nagin as Woyzeck's friend Andres work in their parts more out of physical presence than anything else. Mayer has, on occasion, underdirected his actors: Nagin seems to be playing more to himself than to Babe, and James Shuman's monologue sounds more like an exercise in dialogue modulation than the barroom philosophy it should...
...tight," Mayer said, "and if The Bacchae doesn't do well, we could be in trouble." Euripides The Bacchae, directed by Babe, opened at Agassiz last night...