Word: classics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aiuola moves on three different levels, the philosophic, the political, and the intimately personal; yet all three are perfectly fused. It observes the classic unities of time and place and occurs against a magnificent backdrop of mountains (which the set of the current production has denied us). The theme must owe something to Betti's lifelong career as a magistrate: it tells of the final human hunger to make sense of things--political catastrophies, the death of those we love--by restoring the concepts of guilt and innocence, punishment and choice, in all their dreadful nobility. Only by forcing...
...gestures who methods his way through one purely visceral crisis after another. Where we should have Trotsky in exile, we get something like Governor Long. Indeed, the major flaw of this production throughout was a submerging of the intellectual tensions in an unrelieved broiling bathos of emotionality. Betti's classic balance of philosophic dialogue and human drama was tipped over by an exclusive concentration on the latter. Lines were used as a histrionic medium in which the actors could palpitate rather than ever being allowed simply to mean, to communicate, to convey their propositional sense: it is the theatre...
...study of Latin offers two great rewards among others: in the first year the student learns to decipher dates on cornerstones, and in the seventh or eighth, if he is clever, he is able to read the Satyricon. The randy classic, which deals with a kind of conjugation untouched by grammars, has been nibbled at on the sly by headmasters and bishops; one old Etonian boasted that he had four editions and thought it "rather a gesture'' to keep his best one, bound in clerical black, on his pew at chapel...
South Pacific (at the University Theatre). Despite the ill-advised intermittent use of color filters, there still remains the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein show, one of the glorious monuments of our cultural heritage. France Nuyen is a delight as the object of John Kerr's love...
...above those stereotyped Roman Catholic nuns and priests perpetuated in Going My Way and Come to the Stable. It would be no surprise if Audrey Hepburn, who plays Sister Luke, and director Fred Zinnemann were given Academy Awards for their contributions to this film, which should become a Hollywood classic...