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...Royal Shakespeare Company is one of the glories of the English-speaking stage. It is a touchstone troupe whose productions linger in the mind as definitive. In its brief two-month stay at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the R.S.C. is presenting three works, a little-known Maxim Gorky play called Summerfolk, a shortened version of King Lear, and an infrequently performed Shakespeare play, Love's Labor's Lost. Here is proof, once again, of the company's complete artistic mastery...
...your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, which tax, fine, imprison and hang women, while denying them the right of representation in government." And later at her trial she added: "I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. "Resistance to tyranny is obedience...
...fall of 1918 and the first months of the 1919 winter, an unidentified influenza virus killed 21 million people and affected the lives of 1 billion more, or half the world's population at that time. The bug has been credited with being more effective than the Maxim machine gun in blunting Germany's final assault on France in World War I. Practically the entire Royal Navy was kept in port for twelve days nursing more than 10,000 cases, including the Commander in Chief, His Royal Highness King George V. The flu-ridden crew of the American...
...himself emerged as a likely heir to the late Tyrone Guthrie, the swashbuckling repertory advocate who in 1958 moved to Minneapolis and fired up the U.S. regional-theater movement. Apart from the obligatory classics, Brown digs out such unlikely playwrights as D.H. Lawrence (The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd) and Maxim Gorky (Country People). "Gorky's plays are particularly interesting today. His people are activists, revolutionaries...
Kuwait buys the Law School, the Medical School, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. David L. "Maxim" Gorski, the new chief of University police, sees Death Wish 15 times and shoots seven students bicycling in the Yard through the knees. "Dave has a lot to learn about how we do things at Harvard," Robert Tonis, Gorski's predecessor, comments...