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...Casey. The play tells of the Easter Rising of 1916, a kind of futile miniature war seen through the eyes of the innocent bystanders. O'Casey's tragicomic vision is almost as constant as Shakespeare's, and his ironic sense of people and events moves always through counterpoint. After some fancy blather about "the glory of bloodshed," one sees the terrible reality of a boy dying of a stomach wound. Nora (Roberta Maxwell) pleads desperately with her husband not to go on with the fighting. He leaves her, is killed, and she goes affectingly...
Despite the tragedies of war and death, laughter and the mean and drunken energies of life go on. While a British warship is shelling this Dublin slum, O'Casey's characters are out looting the shops, trying on fancy hats, trundling pianos down the streets and pulling big double beds out of broken shop windows. O'Casey's turbulent canvas of humanity makes him almost a Brueghel among playwrights...
What goes wrong with the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater revival is that O'Casey's people are ineluctably Irish, and this cast, with one exception, playacts at being Irish. The exception is Jack MacGowran, who is vastly impressive as Fluther Good, a cocky, reeling indomitable sparrow of a man with wistful repentance on the brain and wet wit on his tongue...
...value-added tax, may not continue the FTC's strong proconsumer orientation. But the job sometimes makes the man. After drawing some initial criticism, a number of Nixon appointees have turned out to be eager and effective regulators. Among them: Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William J. Casey (who is moving to the State Department), Environmental Protection Administrator William Ruckelshaus-and Kirkpatrick himself, who was originally opposed by some consumer groups as being too soft...
Some leading builders accept the new rules for good business reasons. "In the long run," says Haywood Elliott, president of the lending institution of Sutro Mortgage Investment Trust, "the development that gives a place to beauty and pleasant environment certainly enhances the value of a project." Barbara Sayre Casey, vice president of the home-building firm of Kaufman & Broad, adds: "Every builder is now in the same position. If you did an environmentally sound job that cost you more, you were penalized. Someone could go across the street, do a cheap job and undersell...