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...NATHAN was striking as Clytemnestra, a part which suited her gaunt figure and certainly her shrill, frenzied voice. Al Ranzio's nasal monotone was bothersome at times, but as Zeus, he combined all the self-assurance and comic undertones which Sartre wrote into the role. Norma Levin had surely the most difficult assignment as Electra. She captured the guilelessness of Sartre's very ordinary, very energetic heroine; she also got to speak some of Sartre's most beautiful set-pieces, the little speeches of reminiscence which form a motif in the play...
...Minister Moshe Dayan, the most powerful man in Israel's military establishment is Lieut. General Haim Bar-Lev, 45. Chief of staff of the armed forces, Bar-Lev is an armor expert who has been called "Israel's General Patton." In an interview with TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin last week, Bar-Lev discussed Israel's strategy and the war with the Arabs. Excerpts...
...John Levin, Rocky Jarvis and Terry Oxford, who occupied the first three positions on the ladder last year, have all graduated. And the fourth man, senior Larry Terrell has decided to forego the sport this season. That leaves only juniors Bill Washauer and Chris Nielsen and a rusty Joe Cavanagh as experienced performers, and presents coach Jack Barnaby with a considerable patching job next week, when the Crimson goes South for seasoning...
...force. The cult began long ago, with Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. In their nightmare Utopias, Brave New World and 1984, they depicted future dictatorships made all the more oppressive by relentless efficiency. The counter-cult has strong expression in modern science fiction. Example: in This Perfect Day, Ira Levin, author of Rosemary's Baby, describes a futuristic society ruled by a gigantic computer, Uni, which calculates the most "efficient" assignments of careers for its many human subjects and, like a computerized dating service gone wild, even mates them...
THIS PERFECT DAY by Ira Levin. 309 pages. Random House...