Word: enigma
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...Theatre Company of Boston, not yet four months old and struggling to become established, is presenting an extraordinary production of "The Caretaker." In the intimate theatre at the Hotel Bostonian, author Harold Pinter, director David Wheeler, and the cast of three, transpose the problem--long a scientific enigma--of the interaction of three bodies into human terms with such brilliance that one perceives a solution: the problem is impossible...
...Mitzvah cantata for Israel's 13th birthday. With 15 operas, 12 symphonies, 25 film scores, 15 ballets, 35 concertos and 18 string quartets (he stopped when he had written more than Beethoven) behind him, his message is still unclear; in works heavy with both aphorism and enigma, his music ranges from the insufferably bizarre to the ineffably beautiful...
...Sharif who has thus spoken; the oasis is his. Lawrence adroitly talks his way past this crisis and proceeds with Sharif as his new guide and eventual friend. For the remainder of four hours-through thick, thin and thaumaturgy-Sharif stays close to the side of the English Enigma. Women who have seen the picture say that they go away thinking about the fine performances of O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins and so on, but at night they dream about Omar Sharif...
...noble seriousness of Lawrence and his cheap theatricality, his godlike arrogance and his gibbering self-doubt; his headlong courage, girlish psychasthenia, Celtic wit, humorless egotism, compulsive chastity, sensuous pleasure in pain. But there is something he does not catch, and that something is an answer to the fundamental enigma of Lawrence, a clue to the essential nature of the beast, a glimpse of the secret spring that made him tick...
Tonight the varsity makes its 1962 debut at Amherst, and although the Crimson quintet is something of an enigma, it will probably start this season on a more auspicious note than last year...