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IPHIGENIA IN AULIS. After 2,400 years, the human truths in this drama by Euripides are still as fresh as open wounds. Directed with musical cadence and poetic tension by Michael Cacoyannis, the story of Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter for the Greek cause is a moving lament for all who die young in war. As Clytemnestra, Irene Papas brings the adrenal flow of a mother's love and grief to the stage...
...Aulis, presented last week at Manhattan's Circle in the Square in a translation by Minos Volanakis, shows men and women undoing themselves through ambition, power, lust, fear, guile and egocentric arrogance. At its heart, however, the play is a Grecian urn of tears, an incomparably moving lament for all who die young in war. Directed with musical cadence and poetic tension by Michael Cacoyannis, the drama drags human folly and grief screaming into the light...
Although proud of their country's democratic approach to higher learning, many Japanese scholars lament the loss of the universities' prewar intimacy, when there was close student-professor contact, more emphasis on moral guidance than career-oriented degree-granting. Schools today, complains Tokyo University President Kazuo Okochi, are "producing a lot of young graduates who do not have enough self-consciousness or sense of human values." Like the U.S., Japan has discovered that overcrowding and impersonality are part of the price a nation has to pay for mass higher education...
...been a quarter of a century since a shy blonde out of Jamestown, N. Dak., named Peggy Lee (real name: Norma Egstrom) sang that lament with Benny Goodman's band. She did right-and made plenty money. The intervening years have brought her smash-hit records (Lover, Fever), success as a songwriter (Mañana, It's a Good Day), an Academy Award nomination as an actress (Pete Kelly's Blues), ardent fans (ranging from Duke Ellington to Rudolf Nureyev), and top nightclub engagements at $25,000 a week. They have also brought her serious illness...
...technique. In the late 1930s he studied under Satirist George Grosz at Manhattan's Art Students League, next fell under the combined influences of Picasso, García Lorca and Hemingway (a 1946 show of gaudy oils and watercolors was inspired by García Lorca's lament for a bullfighter). In the 1950s, he painted in Paris, took a turn in Manhattan as a professional songwriter but periodically returned to canvases of Negro life. He began to use collage only in the 1960s...