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Another domestic mammal has the lead in Michael Patrick Hearn's The Porcelain Cat (Little, Brown; $12.95). A medieval sorcerer wants to bring a feline statue to life. For that he needs an ingredient not sold in stores: basilisk blood. Out goes his assistant, a boy destined to encounter a witch and a centaur before he brings about the ironic ending. Hearn has obviously been spending time with the Greek myths, but his narrative is modernized with paintings by Leo and Diane Dillon, who know a few enchantments of their...
...officials observe that the Soviets are showing a new willingness to discuss human rights. Says a State Department analyst: "When we met with ((former Foreign Minister)) Andrei Gromyko, we'd try to raise human rights and he would say it was an internal matter. Now the Soviets bring up the issue." To be sure, they often seek to turn it to their advantage by complaining of what they consider American abuses, including unemployment, homelessness and the imprisonment of anti-nuclear protesters...
Goldstine said he hoped to bring NormanJewison, the director of "Moonstruck" and "Fiddleron the Roof," to speak before a screening of hislatest movie...
Professor of English Robert Brustein created the Institute after trying unsuccessfully to establish a graduate dramatics program here for the past eight years. Brustein, who is founding director of both the Yale Repertory Theater and the ART, says that in 1979 he proposed "we bring a theater here and a conservatory." He adds, "But President Bok did not want to consider a conservatory because Harvard had no undergraduate courses in theater for credit...
...course, the Institute is not only for actors. David Herskovits and Tina Landau are both studying to be directors, and Mary Coleman is studying dramaturgy, a German tradition of theatrical literary managers which Brustein helped bring to America. Riddell says the Institute also expects to begin a program for designers next year and one for playwrights within two years...