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...like to talk about divine retribution. But first, a little background information about my youth in Birmingham, Ala. When I was a sophomore at Mountain Brook High School (they name everything after Nature down there--the cross town rival was Fairfield, then there was Shade Valley--you get the picture), this classmate of mine named Charlie M. Christmas (yes, the M does indeed stand for Merry) became the local legend. Charlie moved to Birmingham at the beginning of tenth grade from what all my classmates called a hick town. Now the usual reaction would have been to ostracize old Charlie...

Author: By Dale S. Russakoff, | Title: Over Hill, Over Dale | 1/30/1974 | See Source »

...Stony Brook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 28, 1974 | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...production that is stilted, mannered and ludicrously stylized, Director John Barton appears to have rummaged through Peter Brook's wastebasket for directorial inspiration while scanting Shakespeare's genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Toppled King/Torn Mind | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...also took Brook's advice and created a committee to examine the teaching and research priorities in the Division...

Author: By Walter N. Rothschild iii, | Title: An Old Soldier Departs | 1/18/1974 | See Source »

...Beggar's Opera and a 1973 Academy staging of Jean Genet's The Screens. Lichtenstein has also brought in a wide variety of visiting theatrical attractions, from Jerzy Grotowski's Polish Theater Lab to the Whirling Dervishes of Turkey to the Peter Brook-Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which appeared following a Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rebirth in Brooklyn | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

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