Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bill Roberts was promoted from a non-descript Lord to the pivotal part of Feste. He sings well indeed, although-unlike Mark Lamos last year--he has to fake his lute-playing. Ellen Tobie is a little less skillful than Lynn Redgrave as the disguised Viola, but Julienne Marie's countess Olivia is a bit more subtle than we had before...
...second-longest role of Cassius, Brutus' brother-in-law who originates the murder plot, a bearded Harris Yulin makes his position more plausible and less villainous than we usually see--and perhaps it should be said that there are no thorough villains in this play, except for the gang that lynches a poor poet merely for having the same name as one of the conspirators...
...process of gathering news enjoys considerably less First Amendment protection from the Burger Court than does printing news once it is gathered. The court is highly protective of competing individual rights, such as a person's right to a fair trial or his right to protect his reputation and privacy...
...William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall on the left. Brennan, often a dissenter in the past, found himself in the majority in several key cases this year, and he wrote the majority opinion in the Weber case. That is an indication, says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther, of a less conservative tilt to the court. Isolated on the right with Rehnquist is Burger. Unlike his predecessor, Earl Warren, the Chief Justice has not molded any kind of consensus on the court. In that sense, the high bench is not only not the "Nixon Court," it is not even the "Burger Court...
Perhaps because he earns his living examining diseased tissue at a Hackensack, N.J., hospital. Dr. Ober, 59, is less inclined to turn pathology into poetry. But he is certainly interested in how others did it. His collection of essays, subtitled Medical Analyses of Literary Men's Afflictions, balances biographical and clinical evidence with psychological speculation and common sense. "We do not test the consecrated wine for hemoglobin content, nor would Careme's recipe for a madeleine give us insight into the workings of Proust's imagination " he writes. "But literature is often a transformation of experience...