Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Webster's hero-villain is a spleeny young opportunist named Flamineo. He is secretary to the Duke of Brachiano. To better himself, he plots the murder of the duke's wife and his own sister's husband, thus clearing the way for his sister to marry the duke. When his brother becomes squeamish about this short cut to success at court, Flamineo kills him, driving his mother mad. In Act II, Operation Avenger, the duke, his new wife and Flamineo are, in turn, killed...
...becoming farce, a kind of Marx Brothers tragedy. But whenever the villainy threatens to become laughable, an authoritatively able cast keeps the drama under sobering control. Frank Langella makes Flamineo a smilingly, itchingly venomous blood brother to lago, and Carrie Nye and Eric Berry are absorbingly effective as the duke's second wife and a corrupt cardinal. Director Jack Landau has given the play drive and fury by cutting garrulous speeches and eliminating intrusive ghosts...
These four-Vanderbilt's Alexander Heard, Emory's Sanford S. Atwood, Tulane's Herbert Longenecker and Duke's Douglas Knight-are all nationally oriented administrators who refuse to keep old Southern traditions at the cost of academic quality. Of the quartet, only Heard is from the South, showing how trustees of their schools reached out to seek the best available men anywhere. Yet Savannah-born Alex Heard, 48, is even more outspokenly critical of Southern educational provincialism than the three Northerners. "We in the South cannot duck behind the thought that if we show...
Married. Patty Duke, 18, Hollywood's youngest Oscar winner (at age sixteen, for The Miracle Worker), now star of her own TV series (The Patty Duke Show); and Harry Falk Jr., 32, assistant director of TV's Trials of O'Brien; he for the second time; in North Hollywood...
...initials A.I. The peasants began to wonder if this might not be Alexander the Blessed. When the stranger, who gave his name as Fyodor Kuzmich but could produce no papers to prove it, was sentenced to 20 lashes for vagrancy, a strange thing happened. Out from Moscow rode Grand Duke Michael, Alexander's younger brother. He personally threatened the judge with a lashing of his own. But after talking privately and reverentially with Kuzmich, Michael relented and left. Other Romanovs visited the holy man: Czarevich Alexander, namesake of his uncle and soon to bear the imperial title, arrived...