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...this war that Director Daniel Seltzer created in last weekend's concert reading of Agamemnon. He had help: what we are and what we want to be took on separate bodies. Agamemnon (David Stone), tall, lean unhappy king is cousin to Aegisthus (Paul Schmidt), less unhappy, not at all king. Cassandra (Lynn Milgrim) wears the colors--saffron--of the dead daughter of Queen Clytemnestra (Frances Gitter). Further, the director had the help of superb actors--actors so strong individually that, for the most part, they could pool their strength in affecting their audience instead of competing to affect...
...judging from the comment, few taxpayers were satisfied. The floors still slant, and the walls still lean as much as ten inches, but Architect Raymond Erith confidently assured everyone: "We've hooked it up good and proper and it won't fall down...
Scouring the prairie, Wilkinson recruited squads of lean, tall, whippet-fast plainsmen. "Hit hard!" other coaches taught. Wilkinson taught, "Hit first!" Other teams might run 60 offensive plays on a winning afternoon; the go-go Sooners...
Many a studious observer has seen for himself that male insects use special tricks to woo reluctant females. Crickets and grasshoppers are musically inclined; butterflies lean to perfumes; mayflies spice up their seductions with dancing...
...case, the memory of the 1930's is very much with us. Perhaps because of the abuse heaped on radicals during the McCarthy period, and because of the culturally lean full years which followed the "full leans years" of the 30's, their writers and music appeal to us now. Never before have the recollections of writers like Edmund Wilson, James Agee, and Alfred Kazin been more in vogue. Never before has the music of Woodie Guthrie, the Weavers, and untold "lost" folk blues singers been more popular. We are hungry for news of that era. When Writers...