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When Sherwood Anderson wrote Winesburg, Ohio, he was trying, he said, to convey "a new looseness [ of ] lives flowing past each other.'' His stereopticon smalltown grotesques were translated with difficulty to me legitimate stage. But last week at the Jacob's Pillow (Mass.) Dance Festival, they took on vivid new life in a fresh medium: a "dance drama" based on the book and choreographed by 38-year-old Donald Saddler, who arranged the dances in Broadway's Wonderful Town...
...plays catch with his wife and sons, and runs a troop of Boy Scouts. But Author Barth matches him with a crushing tragedy in the face of which his pragmatism is meaningless and his nihilism a cheerless thing. The agent of his undoing is the narrator of the book, Jacob Horner, one of the most fascinatingly dreadful characters to appear in a long time. He is self-described as "owl. peacock, chameleon, donkey and popinjay, fugitive from a medieval bestiary." In more modern terms, he is also a manic-depressive, and a fugitive from a psychotherapeutic institution called the Remobilization...
...already in real trouble fighting the Democratic tide, already aware that Ike is of little value in local elections-who are appalled at the thought of the Administration's being a deadweight. Only four G.O.P. Senators, Vermont's George Aiken and Ralph Flanders, New York's Jacob Javits, Kansas' Frank Carlson, supported the President's stand on Adams-and they are not candidates...
NOTES FROM THE WARSAW GHETTO: THE JOURNAL OF EMMANUEL RINGELBLUM (369 pp.)-Edited and Translated by Jacob Sloan-McGraw-Hill...
...electricity was flowing back and forth." Richter gave Prokofiev's tongue-in-cheek score a kaleidoscopic range, resisted the temptation to lushness in the concerto's lyrical passages or to percussive effects in its driving climax. "He tossed it off," said the Philadelphia's awed Concertmaster Jacob Krachmalnick, "like walking through a garden...