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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, New York City. At the Delacorte Theater in Manhattan's Central Park, the company will perform Measure for Measure through July 30, then Richard III, Aug. 3-27. A second, mobile company is touring the city's boroughs doing Macbeth in English and from Aug. 25 through Sept. 5, in Spanish. Presumably the battlements will resound with cries...
...Brigadier General R. Lowell English, Marine commander of the operation, that was a good sign. "With all our bombing and our artillery we forced them to break up," he said. "They are moving in every direction. The impression we have now is that they lack leadership, communication and experience. But of course, tomorrow could make me a liar...
...mental growth is unimpaired in middle age. It is obvious that a man or woman of 40 can understand Moby Dick, The Waste Land or Ulysses (which was published on James Joyce's 40th birthday) far better than the 18-year-old who is assigned it in freshman English...
Died. Daisetz Suzuki, 95, one of Japan's leading philosophers and sages of Zen Buddhism; of a mesenteric thrombosis; in Tokyo. The mere act of trying to explain it is contrary to Zen, yet in lectures at Yale, Columbia and Harvard and in some 30 books in English (An Introduction to Zen Buddhism), Suzuki struggled tirelessly to instruct reason-worshiping Westerners in the Zen principle of suspending reason in order to gain a glimpse of eternity, profoundly influencing scores of intellectuals from Aldous Huxley to J. D. Salinger...
...English reporter Edward Crankshaw of The Observer learned about the Sino-Soviet jockeying of 1957 and 1958 from "Eastern European contacts." His account, on which Rendell's theories are based, is in his book Moscow and Peking...