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...first act of Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England is on stage with his wife Alice, his daughter Margaret, and his future son-in-law, William Roper. Just leaving is Richard Rich, later to prove the mortal enemy who by perjury sends More to his death. Rich has aroused the suspicions of all, and Alice, Margaret, and Roper urge More to arrest him because be is a bad and dangerous man. More refuses, saying that Rich has broken no law. Exasperated, More's wife bursts...
...Paul Johnson was converted ten years ago. Now 32, Johnson runs two of the sect's apple orchards, dutifully puts the profits in the common kitty. Youngest member of the House of David by far, he may also turn out to be its last-and, not incidentally, sole mortal heir to the remaining riches of the Kingdom...
Through the ages, men have sought out drugs to dull their physical aches and pains or to alleviate, like the nepenthe Homer describes, their mental ones. More treasured still have been the substances used to bring mortal flesh into the presence of the divine. Such was the mysterious soma, mentioned in a Sanskrit chronicle. Nomads on the Kamchatka Peninsula lofted themselves into the dazzling world of the gods with the mushroom Amanita muscaria, and discovered that the visions of one eater could be passed to as many as five others if each one drank the urine of the man before...
...anywhere since World War II, the Pentagon counts 164 "internationally significant outbreaks of violence" in the past eight years alone. The U.S. has had to rush troops to Thailand and Lebanon to relieve external pressures, to Panama and the Dominican Republic to counter insurrection from within. It has confronted mortal challenge in Cuba and Berlin. Where the choice once seemed to be between peace and universal conflagration, the world is now experiencing a series of bloodletting skirmishes instead...
Directors John Lithgow and Jane Mushabac apparently have no use for heroes, heroines, or straight men of any sort. Strephon, the young shepherd who is fairy from head to waist and mortal on down, is usually played by romantic-lead types. Lithgow and Mushabac have cast an out-and-out comic in the role, and given him plenty of room to operate. Phyllis, the shepherdess Strephon loves, is pretty much of an ingenue part, but at Agassiz she is played mostly for laughs...