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...temporarily AWOL. He has taken some Chekhov short stories, and with a fond, undeviating respect, adapted them into a kind of narrative revue. The show is knit together by a commentator, "The Writer" (Christopher Plummer), who is made up to look very much like the great and good dramatist and doctor...
...each other with the harmony of a string quartet. He and they project the internal verity of The Four some as a kind of aggressive mating dance that speaks to the residual Neanderthal in all of us. Women's Libbers may well loathe it, but then the dramatist's task - and E.A. Whitehead gives every evidence of knowing it - is not to proselytize but to reveal. ·T.E.K...
...British Playwright David Storey's avocations is painting, and as a dramatist he depicts still lifes. His detractors emphasize the "still"-nothing happens in a Storey play. His admirers emphasize the "life"-everything that constitutes the experience of a lifetime has been distilled into two hours of stage time. When playgoers choose up sides, their vehemence, all by itself, testifies to one thing: we are in the presence of a playwright of consequence...
...Died. Gabriel Marcel, 83, French dramatist, critic, musician and philosopher; of a heart attack; in Paris. A Roman Catholic and a pioneering existentialist who preferred the designation "Neo-Socratic," Marcel rejected abstract thinking as a solution to man's moral problems. Instead, he struggled to define a concrete philosophy that would help man find, in the sense of his own being and in his unselfish love of others, an approach to God. Marcel's best-known books were Metaphysical Journal (1927), Being and Having (1935) and The Mystery of Being (1951). -Died. Ludwig von Mises, 92, Austrian-born...
Author Just, a Washington-based journalist and novelist, has an ear for Washington talk and a dramatist's knack for that precise moment in the flow of chatter when, although nothing important seems to have been said, the lives of the talkers change course. The Senator in his private office is busy phrasing an announcement to the press that he and his wife have separated. With his aide, not incidentally a woman, he searches for a wording that sounds statesmanlike, sober, and does not suggest loose living or the suicidal word divorce...