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...spirit of the production manifested itself early. Romeo, when he was mooning over Roseline, twirled around in his cape like a little girl in a new party dress. Juliet on her first entrance seemed like the dark-haired ghost of Sandra Dee. Pristine unreality continued during their tete-a-tete at the Capulet's party. Warren Motley (Romeo) and Lori Heineman (Juliet) tossed out half sonnets as though they were inviting each other to milk and cookies. Not that they should have been bawdy. But they should have acted as if they were irresistably drawn to each other--otherwise there...
...capital of Alabama, Montgomery is a governmental ghost town. Since Governor Lurleen Wallace underwent a cancer operation in July, she has spent less than two weeks attending to her putative duties at the statehouse. Meanwhile, George Wallace, who wears the pants if not the titular authority in Alabama's first family, has spent 47 days out of state campaigning for President. At least ten top-ranking state officials, still drawing their regular salaries, are off helping Alabama's First Gentleman drum up votes...
Philosopher Karl Jaspers, 85, is a ghost at the German banquet who knows just how to haunt complacent fellow countrymen. Ever since the end of World War II, he has been relentlessly reminding his people that guilt belongs not only to Hitler but to the Germans who supported and obeyed him. Six years ago, he brought down Wagnerian thunder on his head by advising Germans to give up their favorite dream, reunification. Now in this slim, blunt: volume-a bestseller in Germany-he has put all the unpleasant reminders together. The result is a remarkable attempt at national selfcriticism. Only...
...only race Native Dancer ever lost. In a three-year career marred by bad luck (he was knocked off stride by a swerving horse in the Derby) and a succession of physical ailments (bucked shins, stone bruises, a bad ankle, a sore hoof), Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's "Grey Ghost" won 21 out of 22 races and $785,240-surpassing the record of the legendary Man o War. He was such a favorite with the bettors that only in his very first race were Native Dancer's odds higher than 9 to 10. Retired in 1954 to Vanderbilt...
...about "the ghost or two"--the handful of fragile souls that Jarrell forsesaw clustering about his grave? Instead we have nothing less than the United States Cultural All-Star Team. Robert Lowell, John Berryman, John Crowe Ransom, Marianne Moore, James Dickey, Allen Tate, Robert Fitzgerald, Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop, Leslie A. Fiedler, Hannah Arendt, all take the podium...