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HUGHIE is a one-act, 65-minute postlude to The Iceman Cometh and Eugene O'Neill's obsessive theme that truth kills and the lie of illusion nourishes life. In a performance of consummate skill, Jason Robards does precisely what O'Neill always asked of himself, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 8, 1965 | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

Hughie, by Eugene O'Neill. The Greek poet Archilochus said: "The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing." Eugene O'Neill was a hedgehog playwright, and the one big thing he knew was this: the truth kills-the lie of illusion nourishes life. O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Playwright as Hedgehog | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

Around the corner at 111 Mt. Auburn Street is Seymour Swetzoff, custom framer. He does excellent work; as far as I know, there is no one else in Cambridge who can lay gold leaf around the corner of a frame, giving the illusion that there is no joint. More than...

Author: By Theodore E. Stebbins jr., | Title: Galleries at Christmas: Abstraction and Reaction | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

Two noteworthy productions will be opening during the vacation. Under Jose Quintero's direction Jason Robards stars in the U.S. premiere of Eugene O'Neill's unconventional near-monologue Hughie (at the Rovale; previews begin this evening). It is the only completed play in a planned cycle of six. Dealing...

Author: By Caldwell Titcome, | Title: What's Good on the New York Stage? | 12/16/1964 | See Source »

Nonetheless, Mexico's new President took pains to dispel any illusion that he will promote a Latino form of Gaullism that would seek to build nationalist prestige at the expense of hemispheric solidarity. Said Diaz Ordaz, "It is unfair to Mexico to be pointed at as wishful of becoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: A Glowing Start | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

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