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...Death of A Salesman is still playing at Tufts Arena Theater, but no matter. Wait till it's on t.v. again with Cobb and Dunnock. It's too good a play to fool around with. The intransigent can call 623-3880 if they want more info...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STAGE | 7/26/1974 | See Source »

Willy is a man who, in Mark Twain's words, aimed for the palace and got drowned in the sewer. Haunted by the specter of success looming before him, his mind concocts a thousand fool-proof schemes by which the carrot shall be his, while his body stands rooted in paralytic fear lest he should try and fail, or worse yet, succeed, only to taste the paltry fare we call success. Around him is his family, whose empty stomachs have been nurtured on his unsubstantial dreams, and face him now with all the weary pain of the underfed--at once...

Author: By Barbara Fried, | Title: Death Takes a Holiday | 7/23/1974 | See Source »

Chop-Chop Cups. The conjurers had forgotten that their heroes were also afflicted with nostalgia, that Houdini himself had borrowed his name from an earlier performer, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, a 19th century French prestidigitator. Moreover, as the magicians should have known, scientists are the easiest to fool. They seek rational explanations for contrived phenomena, connections where none exist. Magicians were in fact doing what they had always persuaded their audiences to do: they were looking the wrong way. "We magicians are notorious for staring in the rear-view mirror," says Semipro Charles Reynolds, picture editor of Popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Magic Boom: New Sorcery | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...breaking his grip on California politics. In any case, Warren met basic requirements. He was a Republican and his philosophy and common sense "pleased" Eisenhower. Later, dismayed that Warren turned out to be a controversial participant rather than a bland umpire, Ike described the selection as "the biggest damn fool mistake I ever made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Earl Warren's Way: Is It Fair? | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

Blot on Justice, an ironic tragi-comedy for which Richard Nixon recreates his role as the biggest fool who ever ran a country, is continuing its unpopular run at the White House. Dick has added some new lines to the show, some that'll stop you dead in your tracks. In one scene Nixon calls the conviction of John Ehrlichman "a blot on justice." That's sort of like Adolf Hitler calling Eichmann's conviction "a crime against human decency." Just another example of Dick's fantastic sense of humor ("peace with honor" is still his funniest line, though). This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STAGE | 7/19/1974 | See Source »

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