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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play has packed every performance since; it still touches off the same responses. To American eyes, the Czechs give Albee's Westchester an oddly Viennese aspect; the impression is compounded of walnut-and-fringed-lamps Gemütlichkeit and the beard of the leading actor, which makes him look exactly like Sigmund Freud. But the play in Prague compares well with productions elsewhere. It is done with subtlety and panache as well as political relevance. These also happen to be the chief characteristics of Prague's extremely vital and varied theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Czech Stage: Freedom's Last Barricade | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

Worldwide Repertory. For more than ten years, theater in Czechoslovakia has been a free-spoken forum for the forces of liberalization. Prague is a small city but it has 22 theaters playing more than 50 works in a repertory that makes not just Moscow but New York and London look provincial. The last month of the current season offered, in addition to A Delicate Balance, two other Albee plays, The Zoo Story and Everything in the Garden Arthur Miller is represented by The Price and The Crucible, Tennessee Williams by Kingdom on Earth, and Eugene O'Neill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Czech Stage: Freedom's Last Barricade | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

Compromise Talk. In addition, central bankers strongly suspect that South Africa has deposited some of its gold in foreign banks and subtracted the deposits from its figures on gold reserves. That ploy would tend to make the boycott look even more ineffective than it is. British statistics show that $222 million in South African gold entered the U.K. last year. Most of it is probably to be found in South Africa's account at the Bank of England, which does not divulge what it is holding-but which has received South African gold ever since that country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Where the Gold Has Gone | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...Brazilian students at Harvard with the Inter-American University Foundation invite everyone to a South American carnival at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the Winthrop JCR. Dress up in costume if you want to look like everyone else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carnival Time | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...ashtrays and wastebaskets for a last drag on a crushed cigarette butt. Cigarettes were an opiate--sleep, an escape. On my right a woman sat lethargically in her chair--her eyes heavy and dull. I tried to start a conversation but she turned to the wall, flashing a look tat could only mean "Leave me alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chronic Ward | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

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