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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Zero Mostel seems almost to physically expand to fill the stage with yeasty joy, pain and mystery in this musical based on Sholem Aleichem's tales of a poor Jewish dairyman, his family and friends in 1905 Russia...
...grey haze of industry billowed up from Guatemala City on the valley floor below, andthe impatient tootling of traffic jams sounded far into the hills. "I remember when there were just two cars in Guatemala-both Packards," said Lee Whitbeck, 82, a U.S.-born dairyman who went to Guatemala in 1916 and now operates a farm outside the capital. "They used to drive down those cobblestone streets all alone." Nowadays, Whitbeck never goes into town unless he has to. "You can't find a place to park," he grumbles...
Mostel plays Tevye, a poor dairyman by trade and a Jewish cracker-barrel philosopher by bent. Tevye has five unmarried daughters on his hands, a strident wife (Maria Karnilova) at his elbow, and God's voice in his inner ear. He quivers before his wife and quips with his God. He plans to arrange his daughters' marriages in the time-honored way. They plead love. "Tradition," thunders Tevye, stabbing the air with an irate prophet's forefinger and then lowering his hand like a falling leaf, in wry self-mockery. The eldest daughter marries a tailor without...
Also on the grounds at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee are a dozen tenant farmers and their families, who send their children to the school, attend adult classes in better farming methods. A dairyman, for example, gets a $30,000 farm unit with a house, a barn and cows, and can stay ten years in return for splitting his profits with the school. By universal sharing, the school is thus combating what President Anderson calls "too much giveaway today." Says he: "We have no miracle pills here-just opportunity...
Throughout the Appalachian region where corners of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia tangle together, hundreds of farmers agree with disgruntled Dairyman Beck in blaming cloud seeding for the worst drought in a generation. The farmers are furious at the area's fruitgrowers, who are sponsoring the seeding-and with increasing frequency, the threat is heard that somebody's going to get hurt...