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Last week he complained that Farbstein, who likes to remind his constituency that he is the only Jew on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and is an ardent supporter of Israel, was spreading rumors all over the district that Haddad is an Arab. Not only that; people were sending around anonymous notes about him ("Can you trust an ARAB to fight for the interests of Jews and for Israel?"). Even worse, said Haddad, Farbstein was going about telling folks that Haddad was born an Egyptian, that he got married in the Protestant Episcopal Church and thus was a meshumad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: A Jew in Sheik's Clothing? | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

...book closes with chapters on "Tradition, Style and the Theatre Today" and "Actors and Audiences" which deflate the theatre of the absurd and at the same time remind us that drama is a matter of living moments more than philosophy. "Nothing can compare with the magic of the real occasion," he concludes, "which is to me the true glory of the ephemeral art of the theatre--the living actor appearing before the living audience; the silence, the tension, the entrances and exits, the laughter and applause, the subtle changes between one night's performance and another's." Gielgud writes about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John Gielgud's 'Stage Directions' | 5/14/1964 | See Source »

Golding's desire to draw a moral also leads him to simplify the other characters to fit general roles. He works out a set of convenient metaphors to describe each of them, and continually sticks in these formulas to remind the reader of the character's place in the general scheme. Jocelin's ecstasy always burns like a flame, and an angel continually appears behind him to stand for his inspired will. The Master Builder and his wife "revolve around each other." And the urge which entangles the Master Builder in adultery with an innocent townswoman is "the net." This...

Author: By William H. Smock, | Title: The Spire | 5/12/1964 | See Source »

...ridiculous final scene, she begins a new free life, agreeably separated from Bernard. Seeing Bernard for the last time at a Parisian cafe, Therese muses Christ-like to the audience, "If only he'd ask, I'd still go with him." Of course Bernard returns momentarily, but only to remind her he had covered the drinks. Oh-so-aware of Bernard's callousness she oh-so-philosophically observes that really she loved the sticks with Bernie as much as she now loves the city with no one, "because both sounded human." You and Seymour both, baby...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: Therese | 4/30/1964 | See Source »

...Klunder (TIME, April 17), some 225 of the city's Presbyterian elders and 75 ministers met and questioned three Presbyterian clergymen who had taken part in demonstrations. Not satisfied with their explanations, the Rev. John Bruere, minister of the integrated Calvary Presbyterian church, protested: "We have had to remind ourselves that we were not witnessing the antics of college students during their bacchanalian Easter vacation. The Christian way of solving difficult intellectual, spiritual, social and political problems is being reduced to a childish pantomime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: The Backlash | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

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