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...urging of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, the antagonists in Nigeria's 14-month-old civil war assembled in Addis Ababa last week to talk peace once again. Three previous meetings, the most recent three months ago in Kampala, had come to nothing. This time Ethiopia's venerable Lion of Judah told his guests, who represented the federal government in Lagos and the Biafra secessionists: "You cannot afford to fail. You must succeed. There is no alternative." Then he added: "We would like to appeal to you earnestly to refrain from polemics." Both appeals went unheeded...
Buenos Aires reporters clustered around the visiting literary lion and his hostess. How did Graham Greene find the food in Argentina? "I like to drink more than I like to eat," he smiled. "That is a joke," interrupted Victoria Ocampo, noted essayist and editor, "because he has come to a house where the hostess does not touch a drop of alcohol." No kidding, continued Greene, he found the Argentine whisky he was served "interesting but not very good." Er, and politics? "I am a great admirer of Fidel Castro," said Greene, after which Miss Ocampo allowed...
...CONTEMPORARY THEATER, Seattle, presents The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Peter Shaffer's spectacle about Pizarro, June 19-July 6, and James Goldman's The Lion in Winter, a fantasy about the domestic life of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, July...
...hilarious hilt; and he comes over somewhat too ludicrous and undignified for my taste, though this is certainly one way to play him. It is undeniable that everyone will be grossly entertained by the prodigious and protracted cat-and-mouse chase with which the Emperor and the Lion climax the second act. It is inventive, fast, furious, and so athletic that, at the opening performance, the Emperor's august knee not surprisingly got skinned and began to bleed. When at last the Emperor brags, "I have subdued the beast," the supine Lion himself places the Emperor's phonily victorious foot...
...Having long been vitally interested in language, pronunciation, and script, he specified that most of his estate be used to seek out and promote a more efficient British alphabet of at least 40 letters; and that, when such an alphabet was found, a parallel edition of Androcles and the Lion be published with the traditional and the new, phonetic alphabet on opposite pages...