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...brash young Chicago Daily News correspondent named John Gunther, Vienna in the early '30s was about the most exciting assignment on earth. The city was charmed and doomed, as elegant, perverse and scandal loving as an aging archduchess. Though tiny post-Versailles Austria (pop. 6,760,000) teetered perennially on the edge of bankruptcy, the ancient Hapsburg capital was still the political and financial nerve center of the Balkans. As Europe slid into the chaos of depression and approaching war, the Viennese reveled in the musicmaking of Richard Strauss, Lotte Lehman and Bruno Walter; they entrusted their psyches...
...FRANCIS-Jackson, 32 East 69th. Francis translates the furious vitality of his abstract expressionism into bright, brash prints. Reds, yellows, blues and greens splash across new lithographs; one, Bright Jade, Gold, Ghost, resplendent in five colors, is shown in five variations. Through...
...telephone interview yesterday. Hughes said his decision not to run was based on the prestige Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '64 (D-Mass) would enjoy as an incumbent Senator. "He's no longer the brash young man he seemed to be in 1962, but a decent Fair Deal incumbent," he said...
...Platonov intermittently toys with a flighty young female scientist, fights off the amorous intentions of a beautiful widow, and rekindles an old college flame. Meanwhile the widow collects an entourage consisting of a lecherous old landowner, his Paris-educated fop of a son, a weasling Jewish merchant, and a brash horse thief named Ossip. Platonov's brother-in-law, a boozing doctor, and the widow's childish stepson, husband of Platonov's mistress, complete the menagerie...
Everything else about the production--the setting, the costuming, and the excellent entrescene score by Jean Prodromides--is either quaint or grotesque, but never bland. In this early play, his third, Brecht was already the brash, colorful, mystic iconoclast. All of his qualities are respected and encouraged in this successful production at the Hotel Bostonian Playhouse...