Word: hunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left a performance of Peter Shaffer's Royal Hunt of the Sun, I tried to recall the last drama of such stature to come from a British pen. Anything on Pinter, Osborne, Fry, Eliot? No. Then I realized that Royal Hunt is the finest British play since Shaws Saint Joan burst on the boards four decades...
...Royal Hunt Shaffer has tackled some of man's profoundest problems: God, Faith, Hope-Despair, Joy-Pain, Greed, Honor. In the Introduction to the printed text, he states some of his premises: "What is most distressing for me in reading history is the way man constantly trivialises the immensity of his experience" the way, for example, he canalises the greatness of his spiritual awareness into the second-rate formula of a Church-any Church..... To me, the greatest tragic factor in history is man's apparent need to mark the intensity of his reaction to life by joining a band...
Then, 143 miles high and 541.9 miles downrange over the Atlantic, the Agena suddenly went silent. At the Houston control center, flight directors hunted desperately for their missing spacecraft, still hoping that there might be something in orbit for a Gemini rendezvous. But after a futile radar hunt, a technician at the Carnavon tracking station in Australia announced the end by moaning...
...grass-roots itch to get in the saddle means that the hunt is more popular than ever. Some 35 new hunt clubs have sprouted in the U.S. over the last ten years, and children whose parents never heard the cry tallyho! are now riding to hounds...
Martin Gottfried is not one of those New York drama critics who can doom a play with a wince of his pen. Nor can he do much to keep a show running. When he took his seat last week at the opening of Peter Shaffer's Royal Hunt of the Sun (see THEATER), pseudo-savvy first-nighters did not point him out with a knowing air. He is, after all, no more than the man on the aisle for Women's Wear Daily, trade paper to the women's fashion industry. As such...