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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foster's switch is this: an aspiring young playwright named simply Cat (Ed Rombola) conjures up the spirits of the ancient Roman conspirators. They hover over his typewriter in his New York apartment. Cat also summons up Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, who doubles as his actress girl friend Memphis (Lea Scott). He tells them that since Brutus is a rational man and "rational men don't kill," he plans to revise their destinies so that Caesar will not be assassinated in the forum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Caesar Falls Again | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

Gorily Slain. But Cat finds that the forces of history prove inexorable, and Caesar is gorily slain again. It might be argued that Foster has provided, though he fails to pursue, a plausible motive for Brutus' act. Brutus discovers that he is Caesar's natural son and takes his vengeance for not being designated Caesar's heir. This, of course, is a longstanding historical rumor, though no proof has ever been adduced for it. Foster's cautionary political moral is that no man of Brutus' nobility of reason would commit such an act without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Caesar Falls Again | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

...Cat coach Jim Cross said yesterday. "We've played some of the best squads around specifically Wisconsin and B.U., and played them well. The game at Watson will be a tough test, but it should be a good...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Harvard Faces Powerful Vermont Six | 2/7/1975 | See Source »

Vermont has stormed to third place in the current ECAC rankings on the strength of a 10-3 showing against league competition. Fueling the Cat express is an awesome first line of talented stickhandlers, comprised of team scoring leader Tim O'Connell along with linemates Roger Mallette and Bill Koch...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Harvard Faces Powerful Vermont Six | 2/7/1975 | See Source »

...conceptions of John Bull, Uncle Sam and even Santa Claus are the ones that most artists still sedulously ape. On the near side, Herblock 's State of the Union (Viking/Compass) presents the dean of contemporary cartoonists, Herbert Block, drawing-and quartering-his favorite quarry: Government waste, pomposity, fat-cat lobbyists, and last and by all means lost, the Nixon Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Editorial Cartoons: Capturing the Essence | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

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