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...curtain goes up at the New York City Opera to reveal a familiar old figure in flowing medieval robes. It is Faust, and as usual he is pulling at his beard and pondering the mysteries of life. But there is something else. His study is not filled with the customary books. The room is no philosopher's retreat, but the laboratory of a medical scientist. Two operating tables stand in the shadows, and on one of them lies a corpse. Stealthily, two grave robbers arrive with yet another body. As Faust takes the clammy wrist of the fresh cadaver...
With his prophetlike beard, clear eyes, ever-ready smile and imposing stature, this year's Nobel Peace Prizewinner really looks the part. René Cassin, 81, noted French jurist, was a chief architect of the United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that defines the basic rights of all mankind. Pleased as he is with the prize and the progress that has been made in human rights, Cassin is still very much the judicial pragmatist. "Peace is still distant," he notes, "and much remains to be done. Men of good will do not exist everywhere...
Doctor Zhivago made him a star, but to Omar Sharif it was just another Hollywood moneymaker. The film that the Egyptian movie hero is now making in Hollywood, Che!, is quite another thing. With his scraggly beard and cigar, Omar is a ringer for Ernesto Guevara and really feels for him. "Che was a just man fighting for a good cause," says he. "If he had not used violence, he would have been one of the great men of the world...
...most ironic fate of all befell Brillo-bearded Jerry Rubin, 30, a former Berkeley free-speecher and now a yippie leader. To protect himself from police strong-arm tactics, Rubin hired a husky, sledge-fisted Chicagoan known as "Big Bob Lavin," whose beard and bellicosity were matched by his ability at bottle-throwing in confrontations with the cops. Big Bob was gassed by the police, fought them valiantly, but was finally clubbed into submission-carrying with him into jail Rubin's tactical diary. Only then was it revealed that Big Bob was really an undercover cop, Robert Pierson...
Almost instinctively, the four began their work with a pilgrimage to the hippie encampment in Lincoln Park. It was mutual love at first sight. Hippies fondled Ginsberg's black beard and flowing tresses; Genet showered dollar bills on the hippies and received a hippie ring in return. "They are so beautiful; they are such angels," he murmured. The convention that the four were supposed to be covering was less to their taste. "Boring and unoriginal" snapped Genet. So he and his colleagues decided to return to the idyllic delights of Lincoln Park, only to run into a clash with...