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BERKSHIRE THEATER FESTIVAL, Stockbridge, Mass. The Merchant of Venice, July 19-30, performed as it was by the inmates of the Theriesenstadt concentration camp in Nazi Germany in 1943-the costumes are stark prison uniforms and the set is a bare hall in the camp. To be followed by Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot...
Another nonagenarian merchant finally called it a career last week. One week after his acquaintance and competitor Sebastian Spering Kresge retired at 98 as chairman of S. S. Kresge Co. (TIME, July 1), William Thomas Grant celebrated his 90th birthday by announcing that he was relinquishing the titles of chairman and director of the W. T. Grant...
...play Falstaff. Now it is true that in Shakespeare's own lifetime the play was occasionally thus designated. And it is just as true that Falstaff is indeed the work's foremost figure. By this criterion we ought to turn Julius Caesar into Brutus, Cymbeline into Imogen, and The Merchant of Venice into Shylock...
...upheld by a written law, has no meaning at all; right action is a meld of custom and propriety demonstrated by the behavior of the sage. Written contracts are usually mere pieces of paper. "No Chinese would understand Shylock's claim to a pound of flesh in The Merchant of Venice," says Harvard Law Professor Jerome Cohen. "The important thing is human relations. You imply a lack of trust when you allow for disputes in contracts." If disputes arise, they are settled through face-to-face negotiations or through an intermediary, who will seek a compromise rather than...
Stealing Second Base. Continental's celerity is largely the work of its longtime (since 1938) President Robert Forman Six, a onetime merchant seaman who built the airline up from a puddle jumper. Six, 58, is a theatrical sort whose three marriages-to a California socialite, Actresses Ethel Merman and Audrey Meadows, his present wife-created a standard gag at Continental: "Bob is batting .500. Three for Six." With a flair for gaudy promotion, he has equipped his golden-tailed jets with golden toilet seats. His public-relations men once hired two dozen dwarfs, dressed them in golden space suits...