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...total of 24 had assembled for this momentous chapter in the family history. On their first day in Miami Beach, staffers found Eleanor McGovern cooking bacon and eggs for the clan?a task soon taken over by Libby Strauss, a teacher of gourmet cuisine...
...large, Miss de Beauvoir finds that the aged have been honored more in theory than in practice. In the 13th century, Roger Bacon pronounced old age a disease, and few men before or since have disagreed. As for the present, she writes: "It is common knowledge that the condition of old people today is scandalous." Any pretense to patriarchy has been mocked by the urban-industrial dispersal of the family; the attitude of children toward aging parents, she writes, is profound duplicity under a veneer of official respect...
...teaching. Many do things on the outside, Marty Peretz has followed a successful career sinking money into losing presidential campaigns. A whole array of professors have proved themselves as "advisors" in Washington and John Finley has the A.D. Club. But little did I expect that Assistant Professor Donald D. Bacon, whose sinisterly analytical lectures scared me away from his American Drama: Studies in the Dramatic Imagination last fall, should direct an entertaining play at a time and in a place where entertainment is such a rarity...
...seemed like a light comedy, and what wasn't comedy seemed strange rather than tragic. If there was a truly tragic element it must have risen with the dialogue's hot air because the final action, while unexpected, was also unaffecting. If the play was ever a tragicomedy, Bacon must have decided to stress the humorous elements over the serious...
...Hasty Pudding Theatrical. The people at the Pudding are looking for a comeback, and if the magnificence of their effort in any way shows up in the final production, they should have no difficulty resurrecting themselves from the cellar of taste the 123rd show explored. At the Loeb Don Bacon, assistant professor of English, is directing Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV. This, of course, is a perfect chance for Harvard's highly touted C-students to revenge themselves on one of their professors, but if Bacon directs as well as he grades, there will be no need for rotten fruit...