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HADRIAN VII. Playwright Peter Luke makes Frederick William Rolfe, one of the most freakishly talented eccentrics of English letters, the hero of Rolfe's own novel of wish-fulfillment, Hadrian the Seventh. Alec McCowen gives a polished performance as Rolfe, a rejected candidate for priesthood who is elected Pope...
...knows that this kind of thing works with some Americans, and they seem to spare no effort in pressing the point. For example, during an award ceremony for the Fifth Vietnamese Military Division, which was reported on CBS Evening News on February 3, President Thieu gave a speech in English (mind you, a speech in English to an audience of Vietnamese soldiers) in which he said "During the last few days we have killed more of the communists than during the Tet Mau Than offensive . . . we will continue to kill them all, to bring about a quick and lasting peace...
...need to consider the American community in all its devious and marvelous turns through history. We need, more still, to feel, to experience that history, as if it were truly our own. Of course, few Americans are really Americans, in the sense that Frenchmen are French, or Englishmen English: we just haven't been here that long, most of us. Still, we are now Americans, troubled mostly by the problems of America; and to relate fully to those problems we need to relate fully to their history as problems, even if we cannot relate ourselves to the country's history...
...Perhaps, as often happens with those who deal in the intricacies of the English language, the only major objection to the article is a semantic one. Students who continually work closely with their professors on an individual basis sometimes prefer to term their complaints about departmental policy "suggestions" rather than "demands." If this is so, Miss Cantarow, a signer of the letter, might be more circumspect in her use of language...
Other events include a lecture-demonstration on piano accompaniment of silent films by Charles Hofman, film curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and a poetry-reading by Robert T. Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson Lecturer on English Literature...