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...playwright has modernized the drama just enough to give it a surrealistic tinge, which is more accessible to the audience than an old-fashioned mythology in touch with, and fearful of, nature and its spirits. His version allows for the modern mystery of technology. Death is represented as a gaunt, curt woman swathed in ascetic white and attended by two lackeys in surgeon's coats; they pull on rubber gloves before extracting Eurydice's soul. This woman exists in something like a different space and time warp from that of living beings, and she shifts out of her realm...
...Breslin and Tom Wicker--ranged from inoffensive to creditable, with even more commendable choices, such as Madame Binh of Paris Peace Talks fame, who finished seventh in 1973, garnering some student support. In 1973, the first year that Allen passed up his chance, the Class committee came up with playwright Arthur Miller as the next best thing. Miller accepted, and as if to disprove Death of a Salesman's thesis that "attention must be paid," he read from his introduction to Garage Sale, a collection of essays by Ken Kesey...
...book American Jews: Community in Crisis, Gerald S. Strober, a former staff member of the American Jewish Committee, predicts that current trends will make "life rather unpleasant for the individual Jew" in America, and that U.S. Jews are now entering "the most perilous period" in their history. Author and Playwright Elie Wiesel, survivor of Nazi concentration camps, claimed, in the New York Times, that for the first time he could "foresee the possibility of Jews being massacred in the cities of America or in the forests of Europe" because of "a certain climate, a certain mood in the making." According...
...George Pierce Baker, professor of English and class of 1888, left Harvard after 36 years of trying to establish a drama department here, 36 years of frustrated efforts to win recognition for drama as a respectable field of study for ladies and gentlemen. As a director, producer, dramatist and playwright he struggled to bring Harvard into the forefront of the revitalized interest in theater which was developing during the first decades of this century. Baker left to found the Yale Drama School when Yale secured funds for the construction of a new theater and the endowment of a drama school...
Imamu Baraka, playwright and chairman of the Congress of African People, called last night for a "violent transition" of capitalism to achieve a multinational socialism in a speech to about 500 people in the Science Center...