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Political War. Perhaps Kissinger was optimistic for all the right reasons. Despite its intensity, the Mount Hermon fighting was clearly more political than military. Last week, touring the long ridge line that rings Mount Hermon, TIME Correspondent William Marmon talked to one Israeli officer who shared responsibility for the defense...
THE CAST of Winthrop House Dramatic Society's production of The Plain Dealer asks its audience to "Laugh at fools aloud, before their mistresses." Yet unlike the popular (or unpopular) image of Restoration comedy, this play is more than just laughter, fools and mistresses.
Almost outside the realm of Restoration comedy, The Plain Dealer is practically unique among its seventeenth century counterparts. Whereas the plays of Etherege, Congreve and Farquhar are characterized by a lack of genuine emotion, a plot of less weight than their racy, epigrammatic wit, and an absence of realism, William...
The restoration of traditional Passover flavor to the new Haggadah reflects a widespread new interest in ritual practices among Reform Jews (TIME, Nov. 26). But the editor of the new Haggadah, Rabbi Herbert Bronstein of Glencoe, Ill., emphasizes that the restorations are not a return to literalism. The phrase "Next...
The only play playing around Harvard this weekend is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals, at the Loeb--it's getting a good production, by all accounts, so if you like Restoration comedy (there's no accounting for tastes) it's probably all right. Which is probably more than you...