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Sachar believes that taking power away from the president is "the best way totally to paralyze a university," and he may be right. But this one-man rule at Brandeis has become in recent years the largest obstacle to that university's progress...
MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! As Actor Hal Holbrook brings the man from Hannibal, Mo., back to life in a one-man show, he seems a snow-thatched Jove who has laid aside punitive thunderbolts for lightning strokes of irony and mirth. The format is that of Twain's turn-of-the-century lectures; the wry humor is of the moment...
THEATER On Broadway MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! When Hal Hoibrook shuffles off the stage at the end of his one-man show, it is as if one were bidding good night to the incorrigible Clemens himself. As penetrating in spirit as it is physically uncanny, this performance is an extraordinary dramatic re-creation of one of Americana's keenest humorists...
...johnny-come-lately," intoned Everett Dirksen. "When I start, I play for keeps." What he was playing for last week, the third time around, was a characteristically Dirksenian lost cause: a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's "one-man, one-vote" ruling...
...whole Passion might well be Newman's own existential question as an artist. Long an artist's artist who has refused to have dealers and did not allow a one-man show until he was 45, he has emerged only in recent years as a kind of pioneer figure for younger, hard-edge artists. As uncompromising as his paintings, Newman believes that at the very least his Stations are "an expression of my own involvement." Thus stated, they may well also pose the question every artist must answer for himself: Why paint...