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Brazil. After a six-week testing of wills with the country's fractious Congress, President Joao ("Jango") Goulart and his Prime Minister, Francisco Brochado da Rocha, finally managed to achieve a kind of truce. In the Brasilia capital, Brochado da Rocha bluntly told Congress: "We are living at the door of a revolution. This government lacks the power to govern." That, plus his threat to resign, seemed to sink in. Legislators granted the government a package of emergency powers to keep the country together until next October's congressional elections, plus a promise to vote on returning Brazil...
Thin Skin. Last week not only Puffin's puffers, but two other teams of British aeronauts as well, were attempting to accomplish what Leonardo da Vinci had failed to do nearly 450 years ago: build and fly an aircraft powered only by man. The payoff is tempting: a $14,000 prize donated by London Industrialist Henry Kremer, 55. The rules of the contest are deceptively simple. All a citizen of the Commonwealth has to do is fly a heavier-than-air craft over a figure-eight course, around two turning points not less than half a mile apart. According...
Edna St. Vincent Millay's 1920-vintage, Pirandellesque "Aria da Capo" was presented last Saturday and Sunday at the Loeb Experimental Theater. The play was one-act, lasting a bit over twenty minutes. The audience at the first performance didn't in fact realize the play was over when it came to an end. They waited for more, not because they expected an explicit disentanglement of the sketch's nebulous events--probably they had already become familiar with the promising ambiguities of Pinter, Ionesco, Adamov, Genet--but because the classics of the theatre of the abstract have been long-winded...
...rich jewels. It all happens very fast. In reality it is alla gama. But Thyrsus and Corydon die. And even though it was only a game within a play, their bodies do not move but remain on the stage when Pierrot and Columbine return to rehearse from the beginning (da capo) their own skit. They decide to ignore the dead sheepherders in front of the table, for the director assures them that the audience won't necessarily object if the bodies are not removed. Pierrot and Columbine begin again the dialogue heard at the beginning. The play ends, having returned...
...suggestiveness in spite of frequent lapses in enunciation by the cast. Mr. Laughlin also helped to give a bit more rounded portrait of Millay by introducing five minutes' worth of her lyrical poetry, read with widely varying effect by five readers before the stage was brightened for Aria da Capo...