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...hold back, rather than banish, their tears. This misses Brecht's sense of the dire human predicament too deep for tears. Brecht tended to use sex for comic relief, but Barbara Harris' sly burlesque of a prostitute is the wrong kind of funny for this play. Eric Bentley's translation is fluently colloquial if occasionally a shade too matter-of-fact for a playwright who was always a poet. Despite these shortcomings, playgoers jaded on dramatic cream puffs ought to seize the chance to swallow intellectual fire...
...University Choir and the Bach Society Orchestra will perform a Service of Music open to the public in Memorial Church at 8:30 p.m. tonight. Bentley Layton will conduct...
According to Dr. H. Bentley Glass of the Atomic Energy Commission's Advisory Committee on Biology and Medicine, if the U.S. wishes to survive it will need shelters for birds, animals, and plants, as well as for people. After the battle, according to John A. McCone, an estimated 40 crops will have to be raised and discarded before the radiation in the soil can be brought within "acceptable limits." But before the 41st harvest, most people will die of starvation or radiation poisoning. The alternative, according to the federal government, is to scrape off the topsoil, with large earth moving...
Currently on leave to study at Mannes College of Music in New York City, Biss will apear as guest conductor at the orchestra's final concert of this season on May 3. He will assist Bentley R. Layton 63, the orchestra's present conductor...
...Bertolt Brecht. First produced in 1926, and excitingly performed in this Eric Bentley production, Man uncannily foreshadows the process of brainwashing, the loss of identity, and the kind of society where every man wears a mask to hide the face he hasn...