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...like the new off-off-Broadway Roundabout Theater production of Oedipus, will alter the text in order to link it more closely to contemporary minds, sensibilities and responses. It is important to note that the playwright, Anthony Sloan, a pseudonym adopted by the Roundabout's artistic director, Gene Feist, has not tampered with the basic myth. Oedipus has murdered his father, married his mother, sired an incestuous brood, and his eyes are gouged out. What Sloan has done, albeit with lesser aesthetic power and wit, is what Anouilh and Giraudoux have done with the Greek myths...
Rastus. Only when an outrageous act angered him did McGill drop his civility. After the assassination of Robert Kennedy, he assailed the "abscesses in America's society-the jackals, the cowards, the haters, the failures who hate achievers, the yapping feist pack that tries to drown out truth, those who dislike Jews, Negroes, Catholics, liberals." He won a Pulitzer Prize for a 1958 editorial that deplored the bombings of an Atlanta synagogue and a newly integrated Tennessee high school as the work of "rabid, mad-dog minds" and warned: "When the wolves of hate are loosed on one people...
Just hours after Wagner's beefed-up subway force went on duty, a Negro pulled a knife and slashed it across the face of Cab Driver Henry Feist, 64, as he rode a Brooklyn train. The man was arrested and held on assault charges. But Nick Philippides, his face still swollen and battered, now spoke for a whole city when he said: "Of course I'll have to take the subway. I have no car, and I have to work for a living. But I'll be afraid...
...Copyright, 1947, Leo Feist...
...Copyright, 1947, Twentieth Century Music Corp. By permission Leo Feist...