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ATELJE 212, the experimental studio company of Belgrade, is the second troupe in the Lincoln Center Festival. Under the direction of Mira Trailović, the Yugoslavs will present four plays in Serbo-Croatian, with earphones providing instant English translation. Aleksandar Popović's Bora, the Tailor, Alfred Jarry's King Ubu, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Roger Vitrac's Victor or the Children Take Over will run in repertory in the Forum Theater through July...
...lacks the elegance of the croissant, the sophistication of the English muffin, the intrigue of the bagel. But for millions of West Germans, the day begins with Brötchen, the hand-grenade-shaped breakfast roll with a shell so tough that it travels well in trouser pockets and can bear giant charges of Schmalz or butter and jam without buckling. Trouble is, the best Brötchen is freshly baked Brötchen, and that is denied West Germans through a quirk of law dating back to Hitler. To end night shifts for bakers, the Nazis in 1936 forbade...
...writers who prefer rationality to revolution are by no means traditionally conservative. In the Sunday New York Times Magazine last month, Benjamin DeMott, chairman of the English department at Amherst, explored the casually violent language of the revolutionary-minded. Among his specimens...
Died. Captain W. E. Johns, 75, the portly English author who created Biggies, a World War I flying ace whose daredevil exploits and incorruptible character thrilled a worldwide audience of 20 million readers; of pulmonary thrombosis; in Hampton Court, England. Writing of swirling aerial duels between Biggies' Sopwith Camel and les boches was second nature to Johns, since he had tangled with them himself during the war, was shot down, captured and twice escaped. That stiff-upper-lip quality endured-as one government official learned during a recent inquiry of the captain. Could Biggies be given a few socialist...
KING, QUEEN, KNAVE by Vladimir Nabokov. The eternal love triangle gets some witty twists in this first English-language edition of a novel written in 1928, when the Russian-born prose master was a 28-year-old emigre living in Berlin...