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...Ever seen the movie 'American Graffitti?' That's where I lived," says Steve Irion. The senior basketball co-captain grew up in Harlowtown, Montana, a hamlet of 1200 people, which earned him the nickname "Monty" when he came to Cambridge. Every Saturday, young Irion rose at 6 a.m. and went down to the asphalt courts built by the local Kiwanis Club to play roundball until sunset. When he wasn't playing basketball, Irion and his cronies "just used to hang out on Betty's corner." It was on the corner of the street and Betty owned the joint, he explains...
Outside, the stuffed figure of a Minnesota state trooper hangs in effigy, buffeted by the blowing snow. Near by, a white turkey, caricaturing Minnesota Senator Wendell Anderson, twists slowly in the wind. Inside the red brick town hall in Lowry, a hamlet of 257 in west-central Minnesota, angry farmers talk bitterly about Governor Rudy Perpich and his invading "redcoats" and vow never to give up the fight. Declares one white-haired farm wife: 'They're building this line in enemy territory...
When Jimmy Carter visited the Indian village of Daulatpur (pop. 1,907), the hamlet was temporarily renamed Carter-Poori (Carter Place). The President perceived that the villagers, who had doubled their wheat production by introducing irrigation and better seed varieties, were "passionately attached to their rights and liberties." They are also realists. Nobody was vexed that Carter's gift to the village, a View-Master with slides of the presidential family, had wound up in the hands of the state's chief minister rather than those of the village council chief, the sarpanch. Nor did anybody seem very...
...Hamlet is a "crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless work," complained the novelist. Man and Superman, he wrote to George Bernard Shaw, is not "sufficiently serious." The music of Beethoven, Schumann and Berlioz, he told Tchaikovsky, has "an artificial style-striving for the unexpected." The critic was Count Leo Tolstoy, and these and other remarks appear in two volumes of Tolstoy's Letters (Scribners; $35), the first comprehensive translation into English of the Russian writer's prolific correspondence. In notes to friends and fellow authors like I.S. Turgenev, Maxim Gorky, H.G. Wells and Rainer Maria Rilke, Tolstoy also takes...
This Hobson's choice has risks in both directions--a traditional show may be too boring, and an avant-garde treatment may be too freaky for popular acceptance. Either way, it's hard to win. An example is the New York Shakespeare Festival's production of Hamlet in 1975. The show featured a fine cast, including Sam Waterston as the prince and Ruby Dee as Gertrude, but their fine performances were underwhelmed by aggressively groovy staging, which featured banks of lights flashing into the audience whenever a climactic moment came to pass...