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This is the finest production of a play ever mounted at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater. The cast has been infected with the playwright's ethical fervor, and all its members deserve praise. In addition to Foxworth and Henry, three others win special laurels: Stephen Elliott as a pitiless magistrate, Pamela Payton-Wright as Foxworth's seductress, and Philip Bosco as a deeply troubled Christian minister...
...sprawled in a hallway to block entrance to the offices of the university's ROTC instructors. But on most campuses, the crisis managers had only relatively mild crises to manage. Both on Viet Nam and on other issues of race and politics, the students themselves lacked the fervor of past outbreaks...
Though blacks have immortalized the blues and keened their sorrows in spirituals, they have also been immersed in the spirit of evangelical joy. The American black is steeped in Christian fervor, and though he may profess secular aims and agnostic convictions he is also a creature of the Gospel. Part of his being "rocks church" at an invisible but perpetual revival meeting. Some of the songs and dances in Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope comment very seriously on the social injustices still visited on the heirs of slavery, but the inner jubilation that ignites...
Around the U.S., particularly in the Northeast, students demonstrated against the bombing with varying degrees of fervor. At Harvard, 150 demonstrators once more ransacked the Center for International Affairs, after a march from downtown Boston. After a bitter meeting of the university senate, Columbia joined 100 other colleges in a one-day closedown last week. At the University of Maryland, Governor Marvin Mandel called out the National Guard to enforce a curfew after students repeatedly blocked U.S. 1. Last weekend in New York, 50,000 marchers?some from as far away as Nebraska?demonstrated in the rain against the bombing...
Another 100 women sympathizers of the I.R.A. invaded the meeting with cries of "Traitors!" Said Mrs. Marie Drumm: "We are threatening nobody. But I would not advise anyone to hand over to the British army any boy who was on the run." The fervor of Ulster's more militant Catholic women was also reflected in several columns of paid ads in Belfast's Irish News urging resistance by the hunger-striking detainees aboard the prison ship Maidstone in Belfast harbor (which the government ordered closed last week). Said one sample ad: "Hamill-to Frankie and comrades on your...