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Spring came to Peking last week, bringing crocuses to the Imperial Pal ace gardens and Mao-jacketed revolutionaries back into the streets. After a long and severe winter, the city echoed again to the feet of 100,000 mass marchers, who tromped around for two days straight chanting insults at the lat est round of "ambitious right-wingers" - the term invariably used against the enemies of Chairman Mao Tse-tung. This time, there was one significant change. The targets of the taunts, far from being right-wingers, were three top lieutenants of Lin Piao, China's leftist Defense Minister...
...trademarks of his work are the Statue of Liberty and Don Quixote, sometimes dressed as an Indian, sometimes as Uncle Sam, who represent America for him. The Statue of Liberty is a frumpy little lady, cheerful and a bit stupid while Don Quixote, her pal, forges around messing things up as he tries to help. They are the proof of Steinberg--packed with associations, uniquely interpreted, sad and silly and very brave...
Lady Gregory, Yeats' old pal, knew the legend and saw in it possibilities for an exploration of the wackv Irish female temperament. Her play Grania, which is being performed quite nicely these days down at Adams House, is a somewhat altered and heightened version of the legend...
...Growing up, Kerouac accepts his household gods (Breton ancestry and Roman Catholic religion), goes to school, plays football, goes to sea, and comes home shorn of vanity and, one is given to hope, restored to sanity and innocence. The one touch of melodrama is provided by Kerouac's pal Claude who murders an obstreperous pansy...
Back from Nassau, Obolensky is now off to Paris and Rome to arrange parties for Alexander's president, Alexander Farkas; then he must fly down to Madrid to help an old pal, Angier Biddle Duke, the U.S. Ambassador to Spain, give a benefit ball for the Cancer Society. Wherever he goes, there will be entirely too many Beautiful People to round up to leave Serge much time for play. Unless what he does for a living is play enough...