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...playwright, who had written one historical tetralogy (the three Henry VI plays and Richard III), was here embarking on another, which would continue with 1 and 2 Henry IV and Henry V. Although it lacks the artistic unity of, say, Wagner's Ring tetralogy, it does among other things constitute a corporate course in the true art of monarchical government. In Richard II Shakespeare shows us a properly titled divine-right king who lacks the qualities of leadership. In the pair of Henry IV plays we see a gifted leader plagued by his lack of legitimate title. Finally, in Henry...
...YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL brings the Bard to Central Park. Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, plays alternate evenings through Aug. 2. Artistic Director Gerald Freedman guides Stacy Keach as the incorrigible Falstaff and Sam Waterston as the slumming Prince Hal. Then Romeo and Juliet moves into the Delacorte Theater on Aug. 7, with Martin Sheen and Susan MacArthur in the title roles...
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...IV. Time, last week; place, Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center. Bev erly has at last found her destiny. At 39, she is the New York City Opera's prima donna and clearly ranks as one of the two or three finest coloraturas in the world. At the New York Phil harmonic Promenade Concert, she sings a selection of Viennese arias and songs by Kalman, Korngold, Mozart and Richard Strauss, displaying a faultless voice that sweeps with elaborate embellishments to feathery, accurate high notes. The audience goes wild and demands an encore. From Santiago, Buenos Aires, Vienna and London come...
...several progressive theologians have seriously suggested that the ceremony be postponed until puberty, when a youth presumably is mature enough to accept or reject his faith. Perhaps the most formidable challenge to infant baptism was made recently by Switzerland's venerable Karl Earth, in Part 4 of Volume IV of his ever expanding masterwork, Church Dogmatics. In his latest book, Barth argues that there is no Biblical basis for infant baptism and that the ritual is not an act of God's grace but a human response to it-which means that the individual must be mature enough...