Word: exits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repertoire includes Pantagleize, a Belgian farce that wrestles with commitment in life; Exit the King, an existential drama that confronts the inexorability of death; The Cherry Orchard, a Chekhovian masterpiece on the relentlessness of change; and The Show Off, an American comedy about the maddening aspects of an all too recognizable human type...
...Richard Neustadt, director of Harvard's Institute of Politics, observed last week: "It never hurts to walk out at the end, instead of being carried out." And Lyndon Johnson, realizing that he was in danger of being carried out, chose the more graceful exit...
...afraid he doesn't, and that he would accept a fair draft." Many sophisticated Europeans suspected that Johnson hoped to duplicate the feat of Egypt's Nasser, who "quit" after the disastrous war with Israel in 1967 but was restored to power by popular demand. "Is this a false exit," wondered Paris' Le Monde, designed "to stop the rapid decline of his popularity and make for himself a plebiscite of tears...
...gentle and balanced production of Chekhov's commentary on the sad absurdity of human beings who, unable to adapt themselves to the changes of history, grope about in a half-light that may be twilight and may be dawn. Pantagleize, The Show Off and Exit the King round out the repertory...
...Gomulka pledged to "consider" grievances drafted by legitimate student groups, meaning those that met with rectors' permission. More important, he softened as "ill-considered" an antiZionist campaign that had passed off most of the blame for the unrest on Jew ish intellectuals. Gomulka, whose wife is Jewish, promised exit visas to Jews who want to move to Israel and en dorsed the majority of Polish Jews as loyal builders of socialism. In cavalier disregard of deepening unrest among intellectuals, however, he blasted liberal Writers Union members, whose balking at censorship had first rallied students, and at liberal professors, whom...