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...students offered several different theories on why anti-semitism against mathematicians has increased over the last decade but agreed with Victor Kac, a professor of Mathematics at MIT and Soviet emmigre, that a "heightened climate of political repression" exists. The Soviet Union became more suppressive after 1968 when Russia invaded Czechoslovakia, Kac said yesterday...
...Kac, who left Russia five years ago said the Communist Party played a major role in preventing talented people from advancing to positions of influence. "It's not only a question of anti-semitism but of bureaucrats more interested in politics than progress," Kac said...
...otherwise, their French counterparts in the cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Prés are inclined to peer through their existentialist glasses darkly. The most successful of the Parisian rock 'n' rollers is a 31-year-old self-styled gypsy who goes by the name of Mac-Kac (real name: René Reilles). A jazz drummer, Mac took to rocking after the U.S. film called Rock Around the Clock (starring Singer Bill Haley) caught the fancy of Parisian teenagers two years ago. Mac sang his way to fame with his gutty-voiced, absinthe-flavored readings of such items...
Best of the supporting players is Kac Dirrane. Her Ophelia is delicate and genuinely pathetic. Edward Finnegan play Claudius imperiously but with perhaps a trifle too much of oratory in his delivery. He is nevertheless one of the most effective of the company...