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...London, Peter Brook's Royal Shakespeare Company opened at the Aldwych Theatre with a jazzy, quasi-musical melange of mixed authorship called US. The title stands for U.S., as well as us, meaning the British; but the show plays more like Marat / Sade Goes to Viet Nam. In a series of unrelated psychedelic scenes, it portrays America's role in the war as hypocritical at best, barbarian at worst...
...Director Brook explains that he is not taking sides on the morality of the war. His concern, he says, is for the Englishmen whose life is ipso facto affected by U.S. foreign policy. "Here you have the basic conflict that is at the root of all drama. The Englishman is concerned about Viet Nam - and that is a lie, because he isn't. And he's not concerned about Viet Nam - and that is a lie, because he is." How the Englishmen felt about US, however, was not quite so ambiguous. The first-night audience responded with...
...less than a month to election time in Massachusetts, and the political tempo is accelerating. Last week, the pressure of politics had one very obvious effect: Gov. John A. Volpe abandoned his administration's long-standing, but unpopular, position favoring the Brook-line-Elm St. route for the Inner Belt through Cambridge. Volpe pledged he would "start from scratch" in selecting a path for the highway...
...late John Maynard Keynes. Now that Keynes has been embraced by politicians and popularized by journalists, the academicians are eager to assess again the ideas of the 20th century's most influential economist. Lekachman, head of the economics department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is the first American to analyze at book length Keynes's life and work and the impact of his thinking on contemporary times...
...events such as the war in Viet Nam and the Cuban missile crisis, including a hoped-for interview with Khrushchev. Another possibility is the theater of cruelty, a kind of sauna bath of the senses, designed to leave playgoers shocked and tingling at every emotional pore. British Director Peter Brook masterminded Broadway's full-length initiation into the theater of cruelty, this season's surprise smash success, Marat/ Sade...