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...Stalin's pudgy Sancho Panza was the man who, in February 1956, delivered the famous four-hour "secret speech" to the party congress in which he set forth Stalin's crimes and began the complex, much delayed process of de-Stalinization. Out of guilt or common decency, he began to rinse the terror out of Soviet life. Writes Taubman: "His daring but bumbling attempt to reform communism began the long, erratic process of putting a human face (initially his own) on an inhumane system...
...complex business, part psychiatry, part police work - at its best, creative, at its worst, destructive. A good editor can, with a touch, bring dead writing to life. A bad editor strangles good writing in the crib. A good editor is boxing coach, personal trainer, confidant, authority figure, Sancho Panza, guardian angel, and dominatrix...
McCain, alas, isn’t much of a threat to this vast conspiracy of his feverish imaginings. Like Don Quixote, with Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wisc.) as his faithful Sancho Panza, McCain is tilting at windmills. His crusade, which has managed to fire up op-ed pages and college students across the country, is nothing more than a sideshow, a distraction from the real battles over the size of government and our nation’s place in the world...
...audience might be troubled by the earnest stiffness of the opening scene in which Cervantes (played by Eric Fleisig-Greene '00) is thrown into a Spanish Inquisition jail. The problem of seriousness is instantaneously solved, however, the moment Kenneth P. Herrera '03 as Sancho Panza opens his mouth and lets out his gloriously funny falsetto...
Starting with a perfectly lanky, idealistic and dreamy Greene playing Cervantes/Don Quixote, Gfaller has assembled a cast capable of filling out the costumes of these super-legendary characters. Kenneth Herrera makes a great Sancho Panza, capable of being both the devoutly loyal straight man and the perpetrator of Sancho's own brand of comic truth...