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...Brecht succeeded by failing. He wanted to hone his audiences to critical keenness, and he only managed to move them to tears and laughter. He wanted to make his theater a crucible of social change, and he merely convinced theatergoers of the tenacious durability of man's unchanging nature. If he had succeeded, as Biographer Martin Esslin points out, he would have been merely "a flat and boring party hack." Failing, he became a great moral puzzle, a seething controversy, and one of the most significant writers...
When Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning was produced in 1948, a great new hone seemed to have dawned for the English-speaking theater. None of Fry's other plays (A Phoenix Too Frequent, Venus Observed, The Dark Is Light Enough) matches Lady in language and, particularly, in dramatic coherence. But even at his weakest, Fry has led a triumphant one-man parade against the modern theater's main movements. Where virtually all other playwrights were committed to realism or surrealism. Fry wrote romantic and imaginative drama; where poetry had been banished from...
...model prisoner, Kaunda finishes his jail term in January, and at that point, Northern Rhodesia's governor, Sir Evelyn Hone, expects trouble to begin. Last week he prepared to have enacted a new "public security" bill that will give him more drastic powers than any colonial governor has ever had in a British territory not in a state of war or emergency. The governor would be able to control the territory's press, prohibit meetings, conscript labor and supplies, and detain troublemakers without trial. "It is with no enthusiasm that we who have been nurtured in the tradition...
...evidences of the degeneracy of our morals and of the inefficiency of our police is to be seen in the frequent instances of murder by stabbing. The city is infested by gangs of hardened wretches.' One doesn't have to look very far to see whom Philip Hone blames for this distress: Irishmen, 'the most ignorant and consequently the most obstinate white men in the world...
Dawn was still two hours away when the old man parked his Jeep and set off through the fields of wind-grass for the sea. On the rocky Massachusetts beach, he used a pebble to hone the three hooks hanging from a cigar-shaped yellow plug with a red nose. Then, peering out at the dark water from under his long-billed fisherman's cap, he began to cast. In gentle, precise rhythm, his rod whipped back and forth until he lifted a leathery thumb from the reel and the plug soared 190 ft. out into the Atlantic...