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...year 1200 marks a high point in the millennium between the fall of Rome and the rise of the Renaissance. Around that time, a sweet wind of humanism swept across the dark face of Europe, bringing with it a new interest in Latin classics and Greek philosophy, a delight in racy troubadour songs and epic verse, and a keener awareness of the dignity of man. The Magna Carta was signed, and the great Gothic cathedrals of Chartres, Notre Dame and Reims were begun...
...columnist), the Ambassador, the Pentagon Man, the C.I.A. Man, the A.I.D. Man, the Local Prince. Stereotypes do contain truths, and they serve a playwright well, but only 50% of the way. The other 50% comes from a playwright's individuation of his characters so that they surprise, confound, delight and involve the audience. That is the 50% that Art Buchwald cannot yet supply in Sheep on the Runway...
...presidential campaign and with whom he golfs on occasion. When the Department of Justice threatened to block a planned merger of the British Petroleum Co., Ltd. and Standard Oil (Ohio) several months ago, Annenberg helped to persuade the trustbusters to drop their objections. The merger went through, to the delight of a grateful British government. But worries persist. "We know Annenberg can get through to Nixon," said a top-ranking British diplomat. "But can you persuade him to say the right thing...
...brilliant Dances at a Gathering, based on a medley of Chopin music. The question then became: Could he top it? The answer, at the New York State Theater last week, was yes. And yes again. In the Night, a 16-minute sparkler incorporating four Chopin nocturnes, was a delight and had the audience roaring its approval. Pronounced the New York Times's Clive Barnes: "Tiny gems are often more difficult in programs than larger jewels-gems like these are able to make their own rules...
...with that speech. Beyond discipline of craft and a reverence for tradition, the English theater retains the renown of greatness because it has behind it an unseen but not an unheard god, the English language. This wonder of wonders is a verdant isle of beauty, a tiara of crystalline delight, a font of wit and wisdom, a burnished mirror of the mind. Born to a noble tongue, Maggie Smith serves it nobly...