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CAMINO REAL, Tennessee Williams' allegory of our times as viewed in a timeless dream, boasts such memorable characters as Casanova, Camille, Byron and Kilroy. At the Provincetown Playhouse, Provincetown, Mass...
...Socialist, would "moralize the existing situation." Fortuna's grounds for divorce are impotence, incurable mental illness, a lengthy prison term, exploitation of wife or daughter for prostitution, attempted murder by one's spouse, desertion or a five-year separation. Opponents deride the measure as a "patente di Casanova" or a Casanova's lovemakmg license. Fortuna contends that the lovemaking already occurs and his bill would sanctify common-law situations...
...comes down to is a brushup on the basics, a touch of inspiration and lots of positive thinking. "Nobody knows that little game between the pitcher and the batter better than I do," he says. At practice sessions, he stations himself behind the batting cage, shouting for Catcher Paul Casanova to choke up on the bat, commanding Shortstop Eddie Brinkman to "swing at strikes, dammit, strikes. Wait for the good pitch. And listen, the base on balls is a hell of a play." For the pitchers, there are lessons on what makes a curve ball curve. Camilo Pascual...
...meet the ball, meet the ball." In the season's opener he did, getting two hits. "I think that's significant as hell," says Williams. "Why? Because Brinkman thinks it is, that's why." "No. 9 told me to get more hip in my swing," says Casanova, recalling the game in which he swiveled into a pitch and belted a home run. "I ran the bases, and each step I asked myself if this really was happening...
...Marxism: Is It Science? (1940) are still regarded as among the most damning analyses of Communism. He also proved himself a considerable poet and turned out an autobiography, about which one critic wrote: "It has the egalitarian earnestness of a Tom Paine, the lighthearted sexual adventures of a Casanova, the self-preoccupation of a Cellini...