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This year's production starts Richard Basehart, Hal Holbrook, and Philip Bosco in the lead roles. Richard II is one of Shakespeare's earliest historical plays...
...author should create a new technique for each new subject. Butor's latest technique produced Mobile, an indescribably dull account of 50 U.S. states, presented as weird collections of lists, and typographical eccentricities which owe something to both John Dos Passos and E.E. Cummings. One of his earliest books, Passing Time, was a Robbe-Grilletesque effort to scramble time sequences. The hero keeps a double-entry diary in which accounts of what happened as far back as seven months ago mingle with impressions of the present. Like many writers. Butor feels readers are weary of both...
Thurs., June 14 Accent (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Descendants of the earliest American Negro slaves, now living on the Georgia Sea Islands, are studied. John Ciardi is host, guest is Folk Musicologist Alan Lomax...
...Varna (formerly called Stalin), he planted two small trees, after which he handed the shovel to startled Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. "I have helped build Communism," joked Nikita. "Now you've got to work. This isn't like writing notes." Khrushchev was visiting Moscow's earliest, most slavish European satellite because of economic and political troubles...
YALE Library recently received one of the most important eartographical treasures in the world, a late 15th century map showing the geographical concepts of Christopher Columbus before the discovery of America. It is signed by German map-maker Hourious Martellus and may be the major source of the earliest extant globe in the world made at Nuremberg in 1492 by Martin Behatm. Dated cirea 1489, and measuring six by four feet, Yale's Martellus map is the only one of the pre-Columbian world to show the famous island of Japan in the location where Columbus believed...