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...Tituba (Sandra Provost) made the most of describing her encounter with the devil. In Act III, Abigail Williams (Linda Phillips) made the court room scene, in which demons appeared to her, fun; a dull, dull text quashed her immediately. Given fatuous parts, many of the other singers (Mary Liverman, Ivan Oak, John Ring, Mary Lou Sullivan, and Robert Donaldson) strove mightily to overcome them. The set was imaginative and attractive: the skeleton of a frame house served a surprising variety of functions during the four, tedious acts. It was sad to see such rich resources used for such a poor...
...Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. An ex-political prisoner, who spent eight years in Siberia, has soared to fame in Russia by writing a roughhewn novel about life in one of Stalin's concentration camps...
...Australian acquaintances, Soviet Embassy First Secretary Ivan Feodorovich Skripov seemed a likable sort, as Soviet diplomats go. He was a good talker, an enthusiastic partygoer and a back-slapping practical joker who often laced his guests' beer with vodka, guffawing when they caught on. But amiable Ivan was more than a spoofer. He was also...
This time, Australia had equally convincing proof-25 photos taken of Skripov's meetings with Miss X. For the moment, there was no talk of a new breakoff in relations. Moscow prudently announced that Skripov's boss, Ambassador Ivan F. Kurdiujov, home on sick leave, would not be returning to Australia...
Dryly and precisely, Solzhenitsyn describes life at the camp, piling horror on top of horror, until the place seems too monstrous to be believed. One day in the life of the peasant hero Ivan Denisovich Shukhov seems a lifetime...