Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile the West continued its somewhat halting ring-around-the-rock-ets. Arriving in Moscow (his first visit), Dean Rusk struck a neorealistic note: "This test ban is an important event. It could become a historic event. That depends upon what follows." Then he settled down with Britain's Lord Home and Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko for a series of conferences to see where, after the opening sequence of the test ban, the new Moscow script might lead...
...guarded room at the hospital, Stephen Ward died at week's end without knowing that he had been convicted. A suicide note written four days earlier explained: "It's a wish not to let them get me. I'd rather get myself." Every Englishman had his own obituary for the man who was written off on the court docket as "defendant deceased." Stephen's friend "Bill," Viscount Astor, a somewhat belated witness of high estate, allowed piously: "His readiness to help anyone in pain is the memory many will treasure." In one way or another...
...form of a sermon delivered by the god Ra to the audience: "Men twenty centuries ago were already just such as you, and spoke and lived as ye speak and live, no worse and no better, no wiser and no sillier." And in a postscriptal Note to the play Shaw said, "The notion that there has been any ... Progress since Caesar's time ... is too absurd for discussion" (but he goes on to discuss it anyhow...
...Caesar of this play is the most complex and delicate character Shaw had yet created. Shaw limned for us a hero who is anti-heroic. As he said in a Note, "Caesar is greater off the battlefield than on it... I have been careful to attribute nothing but originality to him." Caesar is, as Eric Bentley astutely observed, utterly devoid of the two types of action traditionally associated with the heroes of melodrama: revenge, and erotic passion. Instead, Shaw transfers the skill in both to Cleopatra. Thus he is already playing around with his thesis that it is woman...
Phil Campagne and John Stephenson, as the sheriff and constable respectively, opened the show on such a flat note that for a moment it seemed any decent high school cast would be a distinct improvement. Douglas Connor, the attorney who twists the law irregardless of justice, compounded the mediocrity...