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...entertaining tragi-comedy about two sisters, both spinster school teachers, at war with themselves and with their hard-boiled, married and successful sister Ceil. The combination at work in this production of superb acting, smooth, carefully thought-out direction, and clever, deftly turned dialogue makes the finished product well nigh irresistible. Estelle Parsons as Catherine Reardon shows the same majestic feel for her part as Julie Harris, playing her neurotic sister Anna, But, the stars in this case, while a delectable pleasure in themselves, are not deployed to compensate for flaws in the play or its staging. There are, simply...
...Year's nigh. Harvard trounced Washington University in St. Louis 121-65, to set Harvard records for the most points scored in a game and for the most field goals scored in one game. Harvard substitutes Marshall Sanders and Jean Wilkenson paced the Crimson with 17 and 16 points apiece...
Given the historical context, it may seem nigh impossible to overstate the repressive prejudices of Johnson's time. However, that is precisely what Sackler has done. Most of Johnson's personality has been removed from the playwright's Jack Jefferson, making him more defenseless and unblemished than Johnson's staunchest supporters ever claimed. Sackler's character has none of Johnson's sensual excesses (and only one all-suffering white wife, drearily enacted by Jane Alexander). The ironic sense of his own destiny which allowed Johnson to cheat and compromise his way to personal security is switched to Jefferson's stereotyped...
...jewels from the Duke of Buckingham! See Con-stance, wife of Bonacieux, drink the fatal glass of wine!-George Hamlin's current Loeb production works up virtually every type of scene Polonius could ever want to see. It's a Baskin-Robbins approach to theatre and it includes nigh unto every flavor known...
...historical cycles is, of course, none too eccentric a view of history: Plato, Polybius, Machiavelli, Vico, Spengler form an impressive pedigree. He need not even be too cautious in predicting when the next conservative cycle will dawn. After all, Plato-boldly and rather sensibly, as it would be well-nigh difficult and unnecessary to prove him wrong-calculated that history returned upon itself in 72,000 years! From internal evidence there is no doubt that for Lipset the periodicity of this circular movement by which the history of the states returned, over and over again, to the same point...