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This grabber is the lead-off speech of Lawrence Durrell's new play, An Irish Faustus, which is playing at Hamburg's Deutsches Schauspielhaus...
...Hamburg has been patient with Durrell. His first play, Sappho (TIME, Sept. 8, 1961), opened there and ran for all of twelve performances. But Hamburg's theater-minded populace just could not believe that the author of vitally dramatic novels could write twice like a wooden Indian. So Durrell's second play, Act is, was staged there too. It lasted 26 performances...
Incredibly, Hamburg has given Durrell another chance to work toward his announced objective: "To find out if it's possible to write a poetic drama that's really stageable and exciting." His chief postulate apparently is that if he can't do it, no one can. But An Irish Faustus confides little to the reason and unintentionally mocks a great deal more than Aristotle. Durrell describes it as "a morality," but it is really a pretension. Durrell himself was hooted from the stage...
...steel-products maker, Brockhouse Trading Facilities, found that its export manager, Reg Parkes, had been an R.A.F. pilot, bought him a small plane for calling on Continental customers. Wilkinson Sword Ltd., the blademaker, now treats the British market simply as part of Europe, and salesmen travel to Milan or Hamburg as casually as to Glasgow...
Would the U.S. blast Moscow with nuclear weapons because a Soviet ground force nibbles at Hamburg, when the destruction of New York is the certain counterblow? Probably not, reason many Germans. And if the Russians reached the same conclusion, it would serve as a downright invitation to them to try. If the U.S. concedes unchallenged conventional superiority to the Russians, argued former Secretary of State Dean Acheson before a German-Ameri can Club meeting in Bonn last week, the Russians might be able to rack up a series of small but important "profits" in Europe, "without setting off a nuclear...