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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...connections to the Hitler era are obvious: the unquestioning obedience to authority, the abnegation of responsibility, the refusal to alter ordinary patterns of behavior. But these issues apply to other political situations as well, and the play does not depend on the memory of Hitler for its power. Mrozek has created a situation which alludes to the war years and at the same time transcends that specific period. Placed in such a situation, we would be just as likely as Mr. I or Mr. II to act the way they do. We cannot find excuses or explanations for their actions...
...Performance, he tries too hard. He's better at just throwing his characters on stage and then inexplicably plucking them off, the way he does in Striptease. He creates situations rather than plots, and therefore he cannot use the standard dramatic techniques for opening and closing a play, which depend on a certain amount of development within the play. Before his works achieve the level they promise, he will have to find his own method of shaping his plays, somewhere in between the formal structure of traditional theater and the intentional formlessness of the Theater of the Absurd...
Nixon's policy toward Latin America is turning away from the explicit purposes of the Alliance. In his first policy speech, given on Oct. 31, 1969, he maintained that social and economic progress would henceforth depend more on the initiatives of Latin Americans. Nixon also sees the answer to Latin America's problems through economic development. Furthermore, he recommended that the ceiling on military sales be raised to $150 million for 1972, though between 1966 and 1970, sales had averaged only $38 million...
Becker's work in tissue regeneration dates back to 1958, when he and his colleagues began experiments to determine whether electrical stimulation could trigger bone and other tissue growth in animals. Earlier research had already established that the chances of regeneration in a species depend upon the proportion of nerve tissue in the area of regeneration. Becker points out that man, with roughly 70% of his total nerve mass concentrated in his brain, cannot regenerate. Salamanders, with only half the mass of their nerve tissue in their brains and the remainder spread throughout their bodies, can grow new tails...
With his great talent, he displayed a cavalier attitude toward the mundane aspects of his work, which sometimes invited criticism. He scorned rehearsals, frequently played hooky and provoked one conductor to waspishly observe that, if nothing else, one could depend on Melchior to make the same mistakes. While that judgment was harsh, it is true that during one of his umpteen performances of Tristan, Melchior fell asleep onstage, waking only when the mighty Flagstad fell over him at the conclusion of the Liebestod. But his dedication to his art was such that when he fractured his big toe during...