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...groups are planning orderly demonstrations, and none of the peace workers expect anyone to stage any extreme protests such as draft card burnings...
...subject. They were a formula, in some measure a theology, adopted by lawyers, businessmen, government officials and military men in the years of the Marshall Plan and NATO. Few of the authors had any first hand knowledge of Communism. Few had much experience of the political left. None had much experience of Asia. All were reacting to the current reality of Josef Stalin. To some extent it was a doctrine recited to justify the political and legislative action -- alliances, military appropriations, economic and military aid -- which the proponents thought necessary. There is nothing especially remarkable in the discovery that...
...rallied, more or less automatically, behind any war, however ill-considered, distant or cruel, provided only that Communists could be identified on the other side. Instead the American people have watched the collapse of the assumptions on which the Vietnam War was launched. In vindication of an intelligence none should mistrust, a very large number have reached the inevitable conclusion. The assumptions that took us there have been shown by the history to be false. Therefore we should not be there. The reasons that took us into the conflict having disappeared, why do we remain...
Sherwood Collins has directed with an eye for striking light effects and sharp blackouts. He helps give the show backbone where it has none. And the players, all 14 of them, are uniformly good, projecting age convincingly and boasting authentic-sounding accents. Even the accents that wouldn't fool a Midlands mockingbird are consistent, and that is what counts. Best of all, this production somehow catches the gypsy superstition and ballady poetry of the play, and never lets the numberless moments of high passion numb the audience...
Finally, this is a marvelous cast. Stephen Kaplan is all that an Aristophanesean leading clown should be--self-important, close to the earth, and terribly funny. Tom Babe adds a great deal of skill to a natural talent for comedy, and Dan Deitch gracefully fills the none-too-easy assignment of playing a god who is also a heavy. The chorus, led by Susan Channing, is not, like most Greek choruses, self-conscious and uncomfortably out of place, but perfectly at ease as it stands around the stage reciting, or lounges in the front row of the auditorium. And Lloyd...