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...Quaker team is led by an outstanding epee squad. Penn epee men, especially Ernesto Fernandez and Brook Makler, are exceptional and will be a real test for Harvard's Geza Tatrallyay, Ken Bartels and Eugene White...
...week's second skyjacker, though, was one of the 40 that Dr. Hubbard studied last year after he allegedly stole a private plane. Shortly after 5 a.m. on Saturday, Garrett Brook Trapnell, 33, of Waltham, Mass., walked into the pilot's cabin aboard Trans World Airlines Flight 2 from Los Angeles to New York. He told the pilot and crew of the Boeing 707 that he had a time bomb and later produced an automatic from a phony plastic cast...
...least human, for God's sake")-well, that has become a contagion by now. As has that yearning for Thoreauesque communal living in New England: "We'll stay in these cabin camps and stuff like that till the dough runs out . . . We could live somewhere with a brook and all and ... I could chop all our own wood in the wintertime...
...progressed that far in the West, but defacing and debasing the myths and masterpieces of the past are very much the vogue. The rules are simple: play it cute, play it camp, play it snide, but never, never play it straight. Recent examples include brilliant pranks like Peter Brook's Midsummer Night's Dream and strident vulgarities like Tom O'Horgan's Jesus Christ Superstar. The latest merry-an-drew is Producer Joseph Papp, who has turned loose a dramatic demolition team on Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona...
...these are finally little failures, and the successes are large. Brook is not always right, but when he is right, he is very, very right. King Lear is the summit of Shakespeare, and were this production only half so good, it would demand to be seen...