Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role into an extension or variation of his own marked personality-like Gielgud, Hawkins, Mastroianni, Robards, Fonda. The other, and greater, is able to obliterate the self and mint an entirely fresh being-like Chaplin, Jouvet, Oliver Guinness, Brando. Plummer belongs to the second type. Having recently seen his Hamlet, Arturo Ui, and Pizarro, I just can't believe they were all played by the same...
Danton's Death is Buechner's stab at planting Hamlet in the middle of the French Revolution. Compared with Buechner's hero, Shakespeare's is a prince of action and a man of few words. Buechner's straw man is a compulsive blabbertongue who would rather rant than fight. The play is a petrified forest of conflicting themes. It can be variously regarded as a study in revolutionary disillusionment, an attack on revolutionary fanaticism or a defense of revolutionary intransigence. Danton can be seen as victim or traitor, Robespierre as scourge or hero, or both...
...methodical, grinding patrols against the Viet Cong, are killing an average 40 Viet Cong a week-at roughly the cost of one marine dead and five wounded a day. Typical was a night's work last week. After dusk a Marine platoon surrounded a hamlet in which V.C. had been reported hiding out, split into five squads and sat down to wait. No one spoke, no cigarettes were allowed, nor was mosquito repel lent, despite the stinging swarms-for a trained soldier can smell the chemical 50 yards away. Around 3 a.m. a drenching monsoon rain roared in from...
After the Shooting. The real reason that the battle for Viet Nam is only beginning is that battles themselves are only the beginning. When the shooting stops, some sort of Vietnamese authority, ideally local police, must be ready to move in at once to keep the hamlet secure from the V.C. After security, the needs multiply: reconstruction of the local economy, land reform, better food and medical care, schools, the beginnings of justice. "In order to win," in the long run, says Ky, "there must be a full social revolution in Viet Nam-our revolution, no one else...
...clinkers to preserve the spontaneous thrust of a live performance. Says one violinist-Name me the recording that can give you the electricity, the magnetic quality that you get from a great live performance. It's like hearing Laurence Olivier instead of actually seeing him play Hamlet." But soon, with new video-audio tapes now under development the home audience will see Olivier as well as hear...