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...excuse, but if you view the play solely for amusement, it's quite enjoyable. Innes McDade, as Tyb, was good on the whole, but rather tedious. Her facial expressions tended to be too artificial, falling into set patterns for each emotion she wanted to convey, and Johan's artful interplay with the audience lost its easy intimacy and became rather forced when she attempted to employ it. Jack Salomon, as the priest, was more natural and consequently funnier...
...book published by the Viking Press in 1964, Jones explores the development of American culture from the discovery of the new continent to the Jactsonian period. He believes, as he says in his preface, in "the profound and central truth that American culture [arose] from the interplay of two great sets of forces-the Old World and the New." His book depicts the development of American law, religion, literature, and art through the conflict of these two sets of forces...
...hope of mankind," he fell victim to one of the oldest, gravest dangers the U.N. faces: overoptimism. Exaggerated expectations can only lead to disappointment and cynicism. As Kennedy himself demonstrated in the Cuban missile crisis the following year, salvation lay not in the U.N.. but in a direct interplay of power and reason between the U.S. and Russia...
Noonday at "Pali." One anthropologically absorbing place to watch these characteristics in interplay is the wall-less, roofed area for cafeteria tables at Pacific Palisades High School, bordering on Sunset Boulevard. "Pali," as the kids call it, is a new, $7,000,000, red brick campus lor 2,100 upper-middle-class students. "These are the students' cars," says English Teacher Jeanne Hernandez, pointing to a fast collection of "wheels" ranging up to Jags, "and there are the teachers' cars," pointing to a sedate group of compacts and the like. "It's so lush here that...
Against this private world, Tolstoy posed the public world of events, and the use of ingeniously flexible stage levels keeps the two worlds in ironic interplay. The public world reverberates with social reforms, patriotism, the trumpeted, and trumped-up, goals of nations and of wars. In Tolstoy's view, these are vampires of abstraction that suck real blood. The pinnacle of abstraction, as he sees it, is the great hero Napoleon. While the battle of Borodino is clumsily enacted onstage like a mock-up war game with wooden soldiers and generals, Tolstoy pursues the point that Napoleon...