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Lincoln died last night. Mr. Kirstein, Director of the New York City Ballet and sometime poet, has written a new play about Abraham Lincoln that neither strikingly reinterprets history nor forcefully recreates it. And the deadness of the play's language and plot, the absence of mythic word and mythic act keep it a safe distance from being what its subtitle hopes, "a legend after Lincoln...
...Kirstein has tried to stuff every bit of Lincolnian legend-fluff there is into the few hours before the President's trip to Ford theater. Ann Rutledge, William Herndon, Matthew Brady, Crazy Mary, Drunk Ulysses, dirty stories, trips down the Old Mississippi, unorthodox but deep faith, what he really felt about the Negroes and more and more. Since Kirstein's sole thread of dramatic coherence is Lincoln's growing consciousness that this day is the ordained and necessary day of death, the catalogue of anecdote and reference might be, lamely but legitimately, the drowning man's life passing before...
...White House Happening by Lincoln Kirstein opens at the Loeb. There will be also be performances on August...
...years, Publisher George C. Kirstein had been shelling out his own money to keep the liberal weekly Nation alive. As a staffer put it, "It was time for a new charity." Last week James J. Storrow Jr., 49, a Bostonian who has made a small fortune from film and food companies, took over the burden from Kirstein. "The posture of a dissenter is not a profitable one," the new publisher conceded. "One does not grow rich by shooting sacred cows...
Storrow is unlikely to shoot the Nation's own sizable herd of sacred cows. "I've never met a man with whom I've shared so many ideas," says Kirstein of his successor. Storrow boasts no publishing experience beyond his trial run in putting out the Nation's 100th anniversary issue last summer. Yet so uncharacteristically sleek was that 336-page effort that Storrow may be just the man to make dollars out of dissent. He feels confident that he can double circulation to 60,000 within 18 months and show a modest profit-the first...