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...year. People were talking about these Colorado River projects as far back as 50 years ago. The plans almost reached the drawing board stage, but four Congresses in a row passed them by. Now the development of the river basin, an area larger than all of New England, will enrich our whole country. New irrigation and power dams will increase the productivity of some 360,000 acres of land, but even more important it will open up the basin's wealth of lead, gold, silver, zinc, coal, oil and uranium...
...play Abraham and Isaac, while it does not deepen or alter our basic understanding of the biblical situation in the fashion of Kierkergaard's Fear and Trembling, does retell the story with poetic insight into the man of faith's process of willing. Also colorful bits of Hebraic philosophy enrich our understanding of the chracters and their outlook on life...
...brother's being in love with Johnny's wife. Along with the problem of taking drugs, there is the problem of getting them. In other hands, this complex of elements might strengthen and deepen the story. But Playwright Gazzo is shakiest as a craftsman, and what might enrich only diffuses, what might add to the reality ends by subtracting from...
...family failure, is a charming fellow who supports his pregnant wife and four small daughters by washing windows for an undertaker and borrowing from brother Alain. He hits on a scheme to enrich himself when the agate-eyed undertaker offers him 60,000 francs to sign a "dying wish," asking Alain to provide him with a de luxe funeral. The undertaker thereupon makes Désiré sick through autosuggestion, and rapidly pushes him to the brink of the de luxe funeral, only to drop dead himself. Désiré recovers instantly and signs himself (and Alain...
Most Broadway offerings are based on the obvious notion that a show is not worth producing unless it promises to enrich its backers as a long-run hit. Last week, however, Broadway blossomed with a smash hit that broke rules, and may break records. The American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA) opened its revival of Thornton Wilder's timeless piece of vaudevillian anthropology. The Skin of Our Teeth, first produced in 1942 (and greeted by a mixed chorus of cheers and catcalls-plus a Pulitzer Prize). The ANTA production's glittering stars: the U.S. theater's Grande...