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Ready Epitaph. Neo-Elizabethan Durrell leads a ruminative life these days in his four-room, stone peasant house in the south of France, near Nimes. After a full morning at the typewriter, he putters about building a stone wall, or shoots an occasional game bird, or strums a guitar to his own bawdy lyrics. A veteran of two stormy marriages, he looks forward to the summer visits of his ten-and 20-year-old daughters, who live in England. He is still content with the epitaph he once proposed for himself: "I intend to die young and have the following...
...turned in ample evidence that stand-in scholarship is a flourishing business. Over the past three years, for example, the agency employing Benson had accepted commissions to write theses for at least eight graduate scholars, for fees ranging from $350 to $3,000, on subjects ranging from the Elizabethan theater to the educational ideas of Robert M. Hutchins. The racket was national in scope: Benson found that New York agencies advertising in national periodicals attracted indolent scholars from as far off as Texas, Indiana and Alaska...
...forum, described by one panel member as a "mutual groping," revealed no definite policy decisions on the administration of the Loeb Center. Hugh A. Stubbins, Jr., architect of the theatre, reviewed briefly the features of the building, explaining its adaptability to proscenium, Elizabethan, and full-round productions...
...festive work of acknowledged merit. It settled on Twelfth Night and engaged the imaginative Herbert Berghof as director. Berghof, in keeping with the festive occasion, decided to turn the play into a "music and dance extravaganza." He employed as much music as possible, composed or arranged in neo-Elizabethan style by Andre Singer. He interpreted Malvolio's phrase, "the fool's zanies," as "the Fool's zanies," and created two new characters--a singing zany and a dancing zany--to accompany Feste the Fool. He also did some textual pruning and excised completely the taunting of Malvolio in prison, thereby...
...dark plots, and love destroyed by desperate ambition. The night was filled with Quintero's sound effects-the frantic music of bagpipes, thunder, the clangor of horses' hoofs, bells, and. in the sudden striking silences, the rasp of crickets. Armies fought across the front of the vast Elizabethan stage with such intensity that those in front-row seats pulled back in alarm. Offstage entrances brought the action into the far reaches of the theater; Macbeth strode out to meet the three weird, raffia-haired witches from the very back edge of the theater; Birnam Wood came to Dunsinane...