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...power of this final tabloid is more to the credit of Lowell than the TCB. The violence itself is difficult to mis-stage, but it makes sense only if the production's narrow reading of the script is expanded. While racism is essential to Delano's behavior, the TCB fails to suggest that the Yankee would defend his (national) values against any threat--racial or not--not by reason or mercy, but by force. Benito Cereno is less a tragedy of malice or vengefulness--suggested by the Theater Company--than of American blindness...
...comedy; (b) His book is a good deal more entertaining than the average; (c) It will undoubtedly get a fairer shake from those who have not seen the movie; and (d) There is still time. The weeks remaining can probably best be used to replace Mr. Winter, who is mis-cast, and to cut or change a good deal of gratuitously cute dialogue (another example: "Hell hath no fury like a man who's lost his Wednesday nights...
...Polaris. Minuteman III will replace 700 Minuteman I's (currently operational along with Minuteman II and Titan II) in hardened silos. Poseidon may carry as many as ten separately targetable warheads, and Minuteman perhaps three, along with decoy chaff and penetration devices to fool enemy anti-ballistic mis sile systems. Together, they could raise the U.S. single-strike capability to a formidable maximum of 7,500 nuclear warheads...
Worse, the play is done straight, in full color period dresses and with immaculate props, in short the full Shaw treatment. And this is a grotesque mis-application because, among other reasons, Shaw is supremely logical in his plays with all the events and incidents falling sensibly into place, while Anouilh...
...students--is matched by their open hostility to any member of the establishment, educational or political. A message is written on the door of the Spectator in red magic marker: "We hereby announce open hostility toward the cretins who form the bulk of the working national press. Your insensitive mis-representation will receive no aid from this office--the editors...