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...Brecht, is an ironic firestorm of a play, raging over the subjects of war, history, ideology, heroism, vice and virtue. Brecht robs his 17th century peasant heroine of her three children without breaking her indomitable will to survive. In the daunting title role, Anne Bancroft is not quite the protean earth mother she strives...
Abram Tertz is the pseudonym of a Soviet writer so knowledgeable about Communist literary politics that some have thought he might be Ilya Ehrenburg, the protean figure in Soviet literature who has survived all changes and has written well as revolutionary, emigre, Stalinist, and satirist. Whatever his name, and however his manuscripts are gotten out of Russia (via what the publishers call an intellectual underground), he writes fictional parables that illuminate the reality of Soviet life by the light of fantasy...
During his protean career, John Huston, 56, has been a boxer, cavalryman, painter, writer and Hollywood director of such classics as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen and Freud. What next? The ever restless Huston will soon move in front of the camera -to play the Boston Irish Cardinal Glennon in Otto Preminger's film, The Cardinal. Snorted a poker-playing crony: "The only problem is getting the robes off him when the movie's finished. He'll be pax vobiscuming all over the joint...
Also departing are some great synthesizers, for example, Harvard's protean Henry A. Murray, 69, professor of clinical psychology, who spent four decades probing human personality from every conceivable angle. A Groton graduate and captain of the Harvard crew ('15), Murray went on to become a Manhattan surgeon, a Rockefeller Institute embryologist, a Cambridge University Ph.D. (biochemistry), a personal student of Psychiatrist Carl Jung. He ran the Harvard Psychological Clinic, designed the personality-assessing Thematic Apperception Test, won a Legion of Merit medal for his work in the wartime OSS, and conducted impeccable personal research into everything from...
...into the beauty-parlor-supply business, the New York Philharmonic's Leonard Bernstein, 43, won bravos from 800 guests by re-creating a work he had played when he was 13 at his piano debut at Boston's Temple Mishkan Tefila. "At the time," recalled the protean composer conductor, "I played variations of the song in the manner of Chopin, Liszt and Gershwin. Now I will play it in the manner of Bernstein." Then, as a proud Samuel Bernstein ("You don't expect your child to be a Moses, a Maimonides, a Leonard Bernstein") listened misty-eyed...