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...diet of nothing but peas and exhibits him to his students, an experiment no less dehumanizing for being silly. Woyzeck's firmest hold on life is a woman (Elisabeth Orth) who has borne his child out of wedlock. More sensualist than wanton, she betrays him with a dashing drum major, and the crazed Woyzeck, like a conscript Othello, stabs his flyblown wench to death...
...floor office in London's Crane Court, where Sir Isaac Newton presided over the Royal Society. Benenson, assisted by a staff of eight full-time workers, farms out individual prisoners to Amnesty's 430 volunteer groups in 20 countries. Last week he was in the U.S. to drum up support for the 21st group, which has just been set up in Manhattan. Local chapters use every imaginable publicity weapon to dramatize the cases of their "adopted prisoners" -letters to newspapers, fund-raising campaign parties, appeals to embassies, cables to chiefs of state, massive mailings to the prisoners themselves...
Giinter Grass looks like a slightly sinister Santa Claus and comes loaded with gifts. Renowned as Germany's most powerful postwar novelist (The Tin Drum, Dog Years), this husky son of a Danzig grocer is also a playwright (The Wicked Cooks), a sometime speechwriter (for West Berlin's Mayor Willy...
...government of Chilean President Eduardo Frei. But when it came off last week, it proved a dud. Only 35,000 workers stayed away from their jobs, and the climactic "rally" in Santiago's Plaza Artesanos drew a skimpy crowd. Miners in helmets and packs marched listlessly to a drum and bugle corps; a few busloads of young girls chanted: "If the government continues like this, we will cut off its nose." Not even chunky Communist Councilwoman Mireya Baltra, berating the "imperialists" between swigs from a bottle of Pepsi, could generate much enthusiasm. "This government stained its hands with blood...
...troubled waters of South African race policy receive a scattering of satiric pebbles in Minim, but the all-white cast is scarcely in a position to throw critical stones. Indeed, their imitations of black Africans seem a trifle anemic, especially in a closing drum-and-stomp session. Otherwise, this troupe is so gifted that it may never see Johannesburg again...