Word: disabusedness
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Andorra and The Firebugs. Swiss Dramatist Max Frisch dropped a couple of tons of irony on the New York theater last week, but the only one who got crushed was the playwright. Advance fanfare had it that Frisch, highly regarded and much produced in Europe, was the equal of his...
It was also the week when Fidel Castro finally disabused his people of an old promise. When he came to power three years ago, Castro bragged that his land-reform program would rest on two principles: "The land should belong to those who work it," and "Those who have no...
All kinds of good things must be said for the present production. It is a delight, especially in the pocket-sized theatre of the Hotel Bostonian, decked out in appropriate Gallic style. With Offenbach in the background and designer Robert Wells' curtain a la Toulouse-Lautrec, it out-Montmartres Montmartre...
Those who thought the magazine might turn into a genuine forum for Jewish thought were swiftly disabused of that notion. At a press conference last week, Vergelis blandly described himself as a "natural atheist," pledged that his editorial policy would be antireligious.
What the U.S. saw of Nikita Khrushchev was much more valuable. The U.S., long since disabused of the image of Nikita the Vodka-Slopping Peasant, already knew Khrushchev to be the skillful and dynamic leader of 200 million people. The U.S. found out, as Khrushchev boiled into successive rages in...