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After graduation, Shapiro used a fellowship to study Greek tragedy and English literature at Cambridge University's Clare College. He continued to see a psychiatrist. The English atmosphere, he says, was "like a garden of recuperation, especially when kids I knew back home were blowing themselves up." One of those friends was Ted Gold, a Columbia radical turned Weatherman who was killed in the explosion of a Greenwich Village "bomb factory" last year. When Shapiro talks about Gold, he stutters...
Died. Dr. Donald Dexter Van Slyke. 88, clinical chemist; of cancer; in Garden City. N.Y. A major contributor to the study of amino-acid chemistry and kidney function. Van Slyke applied innovative analytical methods to both clinical and investigative medicine. He was known primarily for his work leading to the detection of acidosis (a condition often leading to diabetic coma) and his studies of kidney disease...
OLLIES, Harold Prince's latest contribution to the musical comedy revolution, made many friends and enemies during its five-week tryout run in Boston. Upon moving to Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre, it became the most controversial musical to reach the great white way in years. Now, a month after its opening, the New York Times is still running an article each Sunday in their drama section covering some aspect of the show or its critics. Follies was also the cover story of Time a couple of weeks ago and Variety reports that it is doing just fine financially...
...show at the Winter Garden Theater* is called Follies, a title self-consciously suggesting irony and double meanings. At its worst moments, Follies is mannered and pretentious, overreaching for Significance. At its best moments?and there are many?it is the most imaginative and original new musical that Broadway has seen in years...
Djilas depicts everyday life on both sides: slender Turkish girls enveloped in soft shadows and sly glances, the insistent murmur of garden streams in the background: hearty Serbs bathed in the rich sunlight that pours copiously on gleaming mountains. But the book's cumulative power lies in appalling battle details. Heads sail briskly from necks and are hoisted on pikes. A Montenegrin grabs a Turk's horse and tries frantically to kick a severed leg out of the stirrup. During a lunch break between bashing feet and smashing kidneys, an unforgettable father-son torture team laments the passing...