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THE ACTORS have come hither, dear reader, and-as Polonius would have it-they're set on being the best actors in the world. Either for tragedy, comedy, historical, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral. And all within the scope of one play, mind you. The play...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Theatre The Three Musketeers at the Loeb | 12/5/1970 | See Source »

A second virtue is that a reader with patience enough to mush through the swampy parts of Geismar's argument will find modest patches of solid ground. The author is right in stating that Twain is too little known and understood as a critic of U.S. society, and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quarter Twain | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

The mass of critical faculties, it seems, has been blunted by affection for previous Korty films. On the basis of riverrun, it has been said that Korty is a director in search of a screenplay. It seems more likely that he is a technician in search of a creative imagination...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Films riverrun at the Orson Welles | 11/24/1970 | See Source »

Missing Dicta. Despite the imprimatur of Washington's conservative Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle, the N.A.B. enshrines many Protestant critical theories that have won wide acceptance in Catholic seminaries in the past 20 years. The Douay preface once reminded everyone that since God inspired the Bible, it could have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Bible for Catholics | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

In Reek's passionately conservative view, Germany's troubles were born with the spirit of nationalism spawned by Bismarck's victory in the Franco-Prussian War. It enabled the Prussian oligarchy and the rich northern manufacturers and bankers to force industrialization throughout a country whose spirit, Reck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brave Old World | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

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