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...Bacchae. Euripides' classic drama, easy to follow even if you don't know Greek. The Bacchae might be summed up as the collected greatest hits of Greek drama--it's got cavorting nymphs, a blind seer, and the lecherous Dionysus to boot. Bring pillows and blankets to the Open Door Theatre, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7 at Pinebank Park. Tickets $3; call 440-8488 for more info...
Although annual fees for tuition, board and room add up to a hefty $4,700, life at the small (enrollment: 175) coed boarding school is almost as rigorous as that of a Marine boot camp. Many of the students are troubled, and short-tempered Gauld treats them like a drill instructor faced with a platoon of left-footed recruits. He occasionally slaps and routinely humiliates the kids-with their parents' tacit consent-in a no-holds-barred effort to toughen them up and build their characters. "The rod is only wrong in the wrong hands," Gauld likes...
...Marine boot camp has been upon occasion called brutal. Rigorous it is from design, but true brutality would be to send Marines into combat without the benefit...
...ears; in a ro mantic fantasy number, featuring the bride and groom coming to life atop a wedding cake, tapping down the tiered layers and sinking in a swamp of frosting. There is a rambunctious interlude in a sports car, small and overcrowded, where a pregnant passenger in the boot tips the balance and sends the MG down the street on rear axle power, looking like a bicycle on training wheels...
Erik Amfitheatrof devoted himself to the campaign of Christian Democratic Premier Aldo Moro, following him to the sun-baked region of Puglia at the heel of Italy's boot. Like Bonfante, Amfitheatrof is a man between two worlds. He was born in Milan, but his composer-father moved soon afterward to Los Angeles. After Harvard, Erik returned to Italy, as a sometime freelance, later as a staff member of TIME-LIFE Books. During this time, he turned out a book on the history of Italian-Americans, The Children of Columbus. Amfitheatrof has run up against the usual double take...