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...Rogue's Trial, a play whose morals pose peculiar moral questions, is essentially an enjoyable amalgamation of evocative characterizations...
...Plemel Jr., 43, figures that he could gross $100,000 on his share of the 2,300 acres that he farms in Ramsey County, N. Dak. He has set off on a buying spree that city people may consider peculiar. New machines are the Cadillacs of a farmer's life. Already, Plemel has bought a $1,400 gardening tractor for his lawn, a $7,000 utility tractor for his barnyard and a $25,000, four-wheel-drive tractor-complete with air conditioning, stereo and a contour seat designed by President John F. Kennedy's back specialist...
...research." He also likes Cambridge--"an exciting place"--where he has become firmly rooted year-round with his wife, son, and two daughters. But Mendelsohn has had to be always wary of academic inertia. "The University, at times, likes to fool itself," he says wryly. "It seemed so peculiar to watch the University trying to be aloof from the war and hearing ROTC marching around down by the Divinity School...
There is good reason for this. Urban renewal in Akron, Ohio is likely to affect friends and family of the Akron-born student. But due to Harvard's peculiar insulation from its environs, most issues of Cambridge elections have little impact on undergraduates here...
What Bridges catches best is the peculiar tension of the classroom, the cool terror that can be instilled by an academic skilled in psychological warfare. His Ivy League Olympian is Kingsfield, a professor of contract law who passes along scholarship with finely tempered disdain. In an original bit of casting, Kingsfield is played by Veteran Theater and Film Producer John Houseman. It is a forbidding, superb performance, catching not only the coldness of such a man but the patrician crustiness that conceals deep and raging contempt...