Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ZORBA. Producer-Director Hal Prince has turned out a non-Jewish version of Fiddler on the Roof. But this time Herschel Bernardi merely inhabits the hero's role rather than being possessed by it, and Maria Karnilova never quite provides the mixture of girlish coquetry and faded carnality that the role of Bouboulina requires. The music sounds as if it is being piped in by Muzak, the lyrics are insipid, the dances are any old folk...
KING LEAR. In the finest performance of his career, Lee J. Cobb plays an almost unplayable role with consummate skill, infusing his portrayal of Shakespeare's king with an all-involving humanity. Cobb's Lear lacks something of the necessary majesty but is totally convincing in the sad scenes of madness. Director Gerald Freedman elicits beautifully modulated acting from the Lincoln Center Repertory Company. Philip Bosco as Kent stands out in a supporting cast that truly supports...
...Reischauer, not surprisingly, places it even higher. Reischauer also notes that in the rest of Asia a precipitate U.S. pullout from Viet Nam, or a thinly veiled sellout, could well ensure eventual Chinese domination of the whole region. He looks instead for "a continuing, even if less conspicuous" U.S. role in Asia after Viet Nam-a view that Nixon may not share...
...Workers do not have power at the moment. The only possible means for them is to mobilize in large numbers. Their flirtation with Wallace was an attempt to acquire some institutional power in government. Traditional politics, the Democratic and Republican parties, do not offer them this institutional role...
...George Reeves, star of Superman, had what role in one of the greatest movies of all time...