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...director who sees the countinghouse at the center of the play cannot take seriously Portia's enchanted realm of Belmont, with its fairy-tale plot and flowery sentiments. Miller treats it as either hypocritical or irrelevant. He turns the casket scenes into occasions for extravaganzas of comic stage business. In the famous lyric dialogue between Lorenzo and Jessica ("In such a night as this . . ."), he makes Lorenzo a pipe-puffing bore and has Jessica fall asleep. Thus he undercuts the romantic element of the play, the key to what Shaw called the work's "humanity and poetry...
...geometric imagery of Frank Stella seems unrelated to anything beyond the realm of painting or problems of color and form. Abstract art does not directly comment on the world that faces it. But as you stand in the midst of the Frank Stella exhibition you can imagine that this exhibition, like other contemporary shows, sits at the focus of the city. The Modern Museum seems an open space in between the tangled grid of New York, where all the confusion has been distilled...
Died. George H. Soule, 82, liberal economist, prolific author and longtime editor (1924-1947) of the New Republic; of pneumonia; in Warren, Conn. A socialist in the Norman Thomas style, Soule followed Founder Herbert Croly's guideline "to start little insurrections in the realm of the readers' convictions." The effort involved attacking U.S.-style capitalism and urging nationalization of industry by democratic means. Soule carried on the campaign in his books on economics-Coming American Revolution (1934), Prosperity Decade (1947)-arguing for "any new revolution that may be justified by the interest and reason of the common...
This precious stone set in the silver sea, this realm, this England, is nothing more than a floating casino...
...This flight has been taken spaceshots out of the realm of a hohum affair. We are not really in control...