Word: maclean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...double bill now playing at the Experimental Theater, the production of de Ghelderode's Escurial is very good, that of Synge's Riders to the Sea, poor. But the comparison is hardly fair. Few actors in the Harvard community could match the technical virtuosity of Mark Bramhall and Peter MacLean, who play the central characters in de Ghelderode's drama. And in its quiet way, Riders to the Sea is a much more difficult play. Escurial is a shock piece, a sort of dramatic danse macabre acted out by a demented, tyrannical king (MacLean) and his distraught fool (Bramhall). Riders...
This is not to detract from MacLean's accomplishment, for he most certainly has the knack, and he is both moving and horrifying. He makes excellent use of a stammer as a verbal pivot on which to make some of the many sudden changes of mood required of him. Furiously angry, he catches on a word, his hand moves to his mouth, and his assertiveness turns into fear. At other times he freezes for a moment, before delivering a pathetic non sequitur...
...proposed to take," and, in fact, entered the Korean conflict only "after being assured by the British that MacArthur would be ham strung and could not effectively oppose them." MacArthur had long since made similar charges. In 1956, he publicly charged that British Spies Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean, who had defected to Moscow five years earlier, had been part of the pipeline to the Communists...
...Panglossian attitude underlies serious, if infrequent, professional misjudgments by the Foreign Office, notably Britain's brave attempt to shrug off the Congo crisis, as well as its extraordinary lapses of human judgment, as in its boys-will-be-boys disregard of such howling security risks as Burgess and Maclean. Since more than 90% of all its recruits are Oxford or Cambridge men, class-conscious Britons still echo the plaint of 19th century Reformer John Bright that the service is "a gigantic system of outdoor relief for the British aristocracy...
...left no will, but now a letter has been found in his Moscow apartment describing how British Defector Guy Burgess, who died last August, wanted his estate divided up. Everything is to go to four friends, including Harold Philby, who tipped off Burgess and Donald Maclean in 1951 that the British Secret Service was closing in, then early this year himself fled to Russia. No one is saying whether Maclean was included too. The letter does not constitute a legal will, but Burgess' brother Nigel will nonetheless comply, though the spy's British holdings, worth $17,416, legally...