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Such exceptional figures remain one of the enigmas of civilization. Leaders, wrote Peyre, "are indeed mystery men born in paradise or some devil's pit." In his brilliant study of Gandhi, Erik Erikson detected a "shrewdness [that] seemed to join his capacity to focus on the infinite meaning in finite things?a trait which is often associated with the attribution of sainthood." The rule that great leaders are summoned forth by great issues can be persuasively argued from, say, the Churchillian example?a brilliant, irascible aristocrat who was settling into a relatively unsuccessful old age when the war called...
...Tears please me," Rubins continues. "When someone cries, you know you've broken through. I want to make people forget they're sitting in a theater at Harvard." The tear level has been high at Rubins's two most recent plays, "Suffragette" and "The Devil Touched My Tongue," and he's proud...
Thus far, the outside reactions have been good. Presented at the Agassiz theater, "The Devil Touched My Tongue," Rubins's musical based on the life of Dorothy Parker, received enthusiastic reviews. "Suffragette" won Broadcast Music Incorporated's varsity show competition...
King of Hearts, 6:30, 9:45 and Devil by the Tail...
This is one of a currently fashionable Hollywood genre known as the disaster movie (TIME, June 10). No one, it seems, is left alive on earth - dat ole debble thermonuclear disaster (shades of On the Beach and The World, the Flesh and the Devil) has struck again. Deep in a cave, eleven computer-selected citizens, each with some tal ent useful to get the world spinning again, await word that the radiation level on the surface is survivable. Meantime, they share a coed dorm, done up by a grateful government in its most lavish 2001 style. A prerecorded television tape...