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...more than a fugitive from the Old Howard. perhaps the production would have been improved by Mr. Kazanoff's trading roles with Tom Griffin, whose Orlando, far from being ebullient, is dour and grumpy enough for a Richard III or an Edmund. (Mr. Griffin, sad to say, has been beset by two of the continuing Terrors of all Shakespearean acting: the Noble Voice, which attempts to sound English and inspiring and most closely resembles muffled Gielgud, and the Emphatic Shimmy, apparently an attempt to lend emphasis to a speech by wriggling one's body wildly...
...House on Coliseum Street, by Shirley Ann Grau. The emotional breakup of a young girl beset by a sordid family and a squalid love affair is told in the author's effective, indirect style, which proves that the shortest distance between fact and feeling is not necessarily a straight line...
...panel of live distinguished commentators agreed last night that the American Theater in beset by problems, but differed over how to cope with them...
...often brutally frank personal exchanges", the addicts slowly reveal to themselves the anxieties that led them to the needle, and through daily contact with similarly beset persons are reinforced in their determination to quit narcotics permanently. Says the founder of Synanon House, 48-year-old Charles E. Dederich, a potbellied Irishman who was once an alcoholic but never a drug addict: "It is something that works...
...this has itself contributed to the change. Psychologists report that 30 years ago the U.S. was in an "age of covert anxiety." It is now in an age of "overt anxiety." People tend to believe that it is wrong and "sick" to feel anxious or guilty; they are beset by guilt about guilt, by anxiety about anxiety...