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...does her father feel about her appearing nude in the San Francisco company of Oh! Calcutta!? Well, said Louise Hatch, 24, the show is a "tongue-in-cheek parade of our sexual hangups"; and after all, "he feels that people who object to the show for moral reasons, ought to object to things like the war in Viet Nam instead." "I am not uptight about it at all," said her father, Episcopal Bishop Robert Hatch of the Diocese of Western Massachusetts. "I am glad she has a chance to express herself...
...says Zoologist Kenneth E.F. Watt of the University of California at Davis, "is plunging into the future without any planning worthy of the name." He has a vision of what the results of that plunge may be: the seething, hungry masses in Calcutta "give us an idea of what the world will look like when it is really breaking down." Right or wrong, Watt demands special respect. Backing up his gloomiest predictions are an interdisciplinary team of busy scientists and a bank of whirring computers...
...second play on this double bill, Jakey Fat Boy, is a hilarious putdown of the hopped-up cult of being "with it." Much of the humor revolves around malicious In jokes about Kenneth Tynan, deviser of Oh! Calcutta! Jake, the hero (O'Connor), is obsessed by Tynan, referring to him as being "uptight with now," or else identifying with him: "I am up there with Ken Tynan and all the great lovers, all the major erotic figures." What Jake actually is, of course, is autoerotic, an onanistic intellectual voyeur...
...Baltimore. To hear Tass tell it, the whole world is caught up in a frenzy of anticipation. Interest in Lenin is growing in American cities, says Tass, including Baltimore, where his books are "undoubtedly most popular with youth." Calcutta and Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, have renamed streets for him. According to Tass, Indian students have asked their Soviet friends to send them seedlings from Ulyanovsk because "they want to grow trees from the motherland of Lenin." He was the subject of an "international" meeting in Bamako, Mali, and of a quiz show on Radio Sierra Leone. A program called Lenin...
Basu last week warned darkly that if his Marxists are not included, "there will be bloodshed all over the state." No one doubts Basu's potential for mayhem-or the grim appropriateness of Rudyard Kipling's description of Calcutta, written nearly a century...