Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...takes good actors to put over such a dizzy combination of psychology, philosophy, and polemics; and since the Lincoln Center Repertory Company has been taking a lot of gas from New York critics for bad acting, one might have expected Condemned to be over the actors' heads. Happily, this was not the case. Tom Rosqui is most impressive as he chills the audience with the power and insanity of Frantz's explosive moods. Priscilla Pointer deftly handles the shifts between the confident conniving, insecurity, and subservience' that is Leni. Edward Winter is pathetic enough as Werner, the play's only...
...Social Register Philadelphian who wears shirts monogrammed SPH in and learned the game as a child at Pennsylvania's exclusive Merion Cricket Club. His opponent in the finals: Victor Niederhoffer, 22, son of a former New York City policeman, who attended Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School and had never seen a squash court until he went to Harvard five years ago on a scholarship. Niederhoffer was confidently offering odds of 2 to 1 on himself. "Frankly, I hope Sammy wins," grunted Edwin H. Bigelow, 79, ex-president of the Squash Association. "He'll wear his laurels...
...That Flesh-Eating Beast." All jaw and sophistical truth-aches is what ails The Condemned of Altona, at Lincoln Center's Beaumont Theater. Jean-Paul Sartre loves to play moral dentist to his time, and this play is his low-speed drill for making everyone cringe with guilt. An aged German shipping tycoon (George Coulouris) is dying of throat cancer, and he wants to get hand-on-the-Bible oaths of dynastic fealty from his daughter and two sons. Immured in an upstairs room, the elder son, Frantz, has not been seen by his father for 1 3 years...
...best of acting companies might be able to touch off a dramatic explosion with this philosophical hydrogen. Manhattan's Lincoln Center troupe remains fireproof...
...This seems little more than sour grapes, vintage 1964. Finally, the Review has extracted a few remarks from a speech by Theodore R. McKeldin, the Republican mayor of Baltimore. The remarks are innocuous enough, concluding with a quote from Kipling. Perhaps the Republicans have run out of quotes from Lincoln...