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Five months after Labor's third straight election defeat, the party, rather than resolving its differences, had sunk so low that some British editorialists were asking seriously last week whether there would ever be another Labor government at all. Cock-a-hoop over two fresh by-election victories, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told a Tory rally that in view of "the folly, confusion and incompetence of our opponents," he might very well follow Sir Winston Churchill's example and resign his office after his 80th birthday-in 1974. To others, dedicated to the proposition that a lively Loyal...
...After that he dashes over to Smithfield Market, where he can drink until 6 a.m. with the city's meat loaders. Then, it's off to Kemble's Head at Covent Garden, where the vegetable loaders can drink until 8:30 a.m. Next comes The Cock at Euston Station and, finally, The Eagle at Southwark, which opens after lunchtime closing and closes at evening opening. At that point, pub No. 1 starts serving as usual, and the man of determination can start all over again...
...precision, fluency and lightness. The ballet had some stunning virtuoso bits: a pas de ruban running like a thread through the first two scenes, m which the lovers reel each other in and out of elaborate cats' cradles of pink rib bon; a scene-setting dance by a "cock and four rumpled "hens," whose strutting absurdities are closely modeled on th fowl Ashton observes at his Suffolk country home ("La Fille is my poor man's Pastoral Symphony...
...worldly observer with both heart and spleen, shows a certain contempt for the riders of bandwagons, he mocks his knight with compassion. And where, in earlier and bitterer mood, Anouilh set his version of Moliere's surly misanthrope against a too complaisant world, his hero in The Fighting Cock comes closer to Cervantes' cracked...
Perhaps no playwright today is more gifted than Anouilh at creating little dialectical monologues or variety turns, at giving a mockingbird's-eye view of a given subject. Dotted with bright remarks, The Fighting Cock half a dozen times foams up into pointed or picturesque little scenes. But instead of a sense of fermentation beneath the foam, there is a good deal of dramatic flatness. It is not so much that the play finds no destination as that it fails to dramatize the very lack of one. What The Fighting Cock needed, in the face...