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...theatrically, in the last few years at Harvard. The two plays were written 800 years apart. The Play of Daniel in 12th century France, Benjamin Britten's Curlew River several years ago in England. They make a fascinating pair, for both are parables for church performance, and both employ stylized musical and theatrical means to illustrate the parable with force...
...gaming tables and betting shops that stretch the length and breadth of the sceptered isle. Britain is Europe's gamblingest nation, and legalized betting may be the country's largest industry. Britain's 16,000 betting shops, 1,200 casinos and 2,000 bingo clubs employ 100,000 people and account for an estimated yearly turnover of $5 billion. The government's slice is nearly $250 million...
...touch of capitalism also has its attractions. With an unexpected pragmatism, the party leaders decided that nationalizing some small and medium-sized businesses would cost the state more trouble than it would be worth. So the state has simply become a "partner" in a number of "semiprivate" firms that employ hundreds of people, ring up millions in yearly sales and account for some 9% of the $31 billion gross national product. Their size and importance to the economy is unique in Eastern Europe, and other Communist countries are studying East Germany's example in hope of emulating its success...
...patrol the offices of many non-defense companies. Employees at American Telephone & Telegraph Co. headquarters in Manhattan, for example, must show identification cards every time they enter or leave the building. Visitors with no specific business in the building are firmly escorted outside. Some groups of businessmen even employ private guards in their neighborhoods to supplement the police. Between 59th and 74th streets, New York City's Madison Avenue has a daytime squad of 15 private police hired by the area's merchants for $2,400 a week. Less visible protection is being supplied by many companies never...
...Festival's present season will be a demonstration of the objects of Franz Walther, a young German artist recently on display in the "Spaces" exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art. Walther will transform an environment into a functional space, in which he plans to teach participants to employ his instrument-things in a series of exercises designed to inspire creative exploration of their inner thoughts. He hesitates to call his pieces "art," referring to each one, instead, as an object-instrument-topic-piece-work-thing-plant-unit-concept...