Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Danton's Death, by Georg Buechner. Physically, the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the Lincoln Center Repertory's new home, is resplendent (see SHOW BUSINESS). Financially, this theater company is the richest in the U.S. Dramatically, it is bankrupt. Under its new directors, Herbert Blau and Jules Irving, Lincoln Center begins its third season by patting together another of a seemingly endless series of dramatic mudpies...
...these themes might have stung the play into fitful life if it were not smothered in rhetoric. Danton inhales moral smog and exhales bombast. Herbert Blau is credited with translating the German; he has assuredly embalmed the English. Thanks to Blau, Robespierre has been given an outward resemblance to Barry Goldwater. This is a political subtlety fully worthy of the mentality that-in a since-deleted program note-linked Lyndon B. Johnson and Mao Tse-tung as fellow tyrants. Thanks to Blau, too, the direction resembles a wind machine blowing actors around like autumn leaves...
...HERBERT BEECHER HUDNUT Minister...
...Irish maintain that their own Saint Brendan the Navigator got here 300 years before Columbus. And though Jewish organizations did not enter the scramble last week, Pennsylvania State Representative Herbert Fineman solemnly averred that Ericsson's trusty navigator was named Eric Mandelbaum. Peking was strangely silent considering the Red brag that a band of Chinese monks traveled from the Aleutians to Mexico back...
...time you form an active unit of this sort, I should like to be considered for membership."--Herbert J. Kedfern, Keene Teachers College, Keene, New Hampshire...