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...festival did not flourish at the box office, it was not the artistic flop that some local critics claimed it was either. Robert Ward's opera Minutes Till Midnight, which took as its theme the moral dilemma of an atomic physicist, is less than exciting, but it has a serviceable tonal score and a singable libretto. Albee's The Man Who Had Three Arms, though wordy, is an intriguing, often hilarious parable about the hazards of fame in the TV age, with excellent performances by Robert Drivas, Patricia Kilgarriff and Wyman Pendleton. Williams' A House Not Meant...
Cheever's work drew criticism as well as accolades. Although his career began to flourish in the 1930s, he never joined arms with the social realists who dominated that decade or subverted his art to ideology. His devotion to the short story provoked some to label him a mere miniaturist. Others were irked by his continued attention to the kind of characters who, as in The Worm in the Apple, "got richer and richer and richer and lived happily, happily, happily, happily." Only the tin-eared could miss the irony of that description. Cheever's people are imprisoned...
...staple of boxing and a specialty of King's, a wild-maned former Cleveland numbers runner who served four years in the Ohio Penitentiary for killing an associate. King got into boxing with a lovable little Damon Runyon-type character named Don Elbaum, who once made a flourish of presenting Sugar Ray Robinson the first gloves he ever wore at Madison Square Garden; Robinson was moved to tears, until both gloves turned out to be righthanded. "Confusion is a promoter's plight and his ally," says King, who is co-promoting the show with Sam Glass and Tiffany Promotions from...
...flora. One of these figures wanders off and encounters the threatening glare of headlights and the honking of car horns. Before the errant extraterrestrial can return to his comrades, the spaceship abruptly ascends and little E.T. is left, alone and friendless, in an alien climate, where he can never flourish and may not survive...
Government obviously should not act antagonistically towards religious groups, but instead should provide a neutral setting in which religions can flourish without excessive entanglements with the State. But as one Supreme Court Justice wrote of a group prayer statute two decades ago. "The breach of neutrality that is today a trickling stream may all too soon become a raging torrent." In view of the President's proposal last week, we can only hope that his diagnosis will not soon prove accurate again...