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Mama's Children. The two leaders did just about everything else, as they ranged the country from quake-shattered Skoplje to wild Montenegro, where after a picnic the mountainfolk broke into the kolo, a fiery, foot-stamping circle dance. Khrushchev and his stolid wife Nina, and Tito and his statuesque spouse Jovanka, broke into the ring, swirling around with the pretty girls and peasants...
...introduction to Nina Simone, the Voice of America's Willis Conover described her way of singing as "sullen, angry, and exciting." That it was. Miss Simone has a way of starting quietly and slowly, and gradually building to a moving climax. She was angry--at the audience, at her fellow musicians making noise backstage--but it only seemed to improve her performance...
...main events of the festival are four evening concerts to be held tonight through Sunday night. Except for Sunday's concert, scheduled for 6 p.m., all the concerts will begin at 8 p.m. The concerts will feature over thirty different jazz groups, including the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Thelonious Monk, Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan, Sunny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane and Maynard Ferguson...
...Patient Enemy. As Nina, Geraldine Page climaxes a decade of steady growth as an actress, with a soaring, searing performance that comes close to fulfilling Tennessee Williams' prophecy that she may become "the American Duse." Ben Gazzara plays the lover with dark, penetrating force, and Pat Hingle's Sam alternately snorts at life like a pig in a trough and tearfully contorts his bruised ego like an infant who has missed the 2 o'clock feeding...
What is strongest in the play itself is O'Neill's flashing mastery of theater, the way he can put a character in a preposterous situation and still make a playgoer cliffhang over the outcome. The archetypal relationships, father versus son. Nina grieving over the child that will never be born, have unimpaired emotional authority. So do some scenes of Chekhovian poignance. such as Nina's autumnal soliloquy on the meaning of the men in her life and what time has done to her and them...