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ZWICK HAS FORMED an elaborate refrain of dance and eerie choral ritual. The cast leaps around the stage in simple leotard costumes as it enacts the joy of conquest of the pain of death, reciting biblical passages. Then the actors stop dead in their tracks, while one or two characters speak. A mounting dirge of Hebrew mourning songs is especially provocative...
...Polyansky accomplishes anything," says a top U.S. State Department expert, "it will have taken a miracle." English Kremlinologist Robert Conquest thinks that Polyansky, a former protege of Khrushchev's, has been maneuvered into a position of "succeed or else." Says Conquest: "Since he can't succeed, he will be the next fall...
...British conquest of the American pop scene was total until 1967 and the storied Monterey Pop Festival. Indeed, the current health and wealth of the various record companies is a direct reflection of who tuned in to the festival and who did not. Most of today's successful moguls were there, contract-signing pens at the ready. At the time, the three top record companies were RCA, Capitol and Columbia. Joe Smith of Warner had pre-empted the pack by signing Jimi Hendrix before the festival. But the most enterprising of all was Columbia's Clive Davis...
...very hopeful about our human conquest over nature. For each such victory, nature manages to take her revenge...
...increased trade or for the slaughter of little governments or for the conquest of lands beyond the seas. Our desires are clear of the thought of gain. The hope of a peace based upon national tolerance has led us to take up arms against that government which wills no peace and knows no tolerance. Is there now one statesman so unwise as to say we lack ideals, that our only though is of gain while the whole world bleeds...