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...earls of Home were imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle for political crimes. Three others were beheaded. One mer ry laird of Home, says the 14th Earl, used to invite his neighbors to dinner and, "having wined them and dined them until they were under the table, would then proceed to acquire their property. Then he would hang them by the neck to a tree outside the bedroom window to remind himself of, as he used to say, 'the danger of overindulgence.' " Home adds: "The English always say that we Scots retarded the advance of civilization. If we had known...
...Rabbit Race, one of three plays featured at the recent Edinburgh Festical of Music and Drama, records the hyprocrisy of a small Bavarian community as they struggle to ride the varying political winds since World War II. With only slight hesitation, they shift course and run before Nazism, fear of Nazism, total pacification, and anti-communist militancy. Serving as a foil to the townspeople is Alois Grubel, a one-time syndicalist, who has been made simple, sterile, and soprano during his stay in a concentration camp. There are two Aloises, one wishing only to breed rabbits and sing...
...twist? Wrong, man. That's the blues, a new British dance craze that comes complete with an added fillip. In one step, hands are clasped behind the back, and the dancer bends slightly forward. The brief lean is called the Philip, since it springs from the Duke of Edinburgh's inevitable hands -clasped -to -the - rear, trunk -inclined stance two steps behind the Queen. Says one London blues-Philip adept: "You just stand there and act as if you are slightly sick...
...Obscene," ruled the Lord Chamberlain, curator of British sensibilities, and 30 phrases were expunged from Henry Miller's written-in-three-days play Just Wild About Harry (TIME, July 12) at the Edinburgh Festival. From California, Miller looked on the bright side: "It just arouses more curiosity about the play." Maybe, but it seems that the dirt was the only thing holding Harry together; after two expurgated performances, it closed...
...Moors. Sir Herbert, who despises institutional learning, and so, of course, became a professor (of fine arts at Edinburgh), writes with grace and clarity of his multiple lives. There is Herbert the dreaming farmboy on the moors of Yorkshire, Captain Read, M.C., D.S.O., an infantry captain in the Green Howards, and Herbert Read, the philosopher, poet and esthetician. Finally, because of his passionate belief that where a man lives is a vital part of man's true history, he traces his roots in the past of Yorkshire's lonely and beautiful North Riding, and describes the people...