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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bottom and Oberon is quite possible--except for one critical scene well along in the play (IV, i), where Bottom, with his noggin transformed into an ass' head, and Oberon must both appear and speak on stage. We are told that Anthony of Padua, Philip Neri and other saints of eld were capable of bilocation. Are they now to be joined by Saint Cyril? The suspense is hardly bearable; and the answer turns out to be: yes, apparently. Bottom appears; yes, it's Ritchard's voice all right. Titaniz puts him to sleep. Oberon enters and does his stuff; Ritchard...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Middling 'Midsummer Night's Dream' Opens | 7/3/1967 | See Source »

...that the job of directed evolved in the first place--and, analogously, that the orchestral conductor superseded the head-bobbing harpsichordist or violin list. Is the indulging of theatrical egotism and arrogance worth a return to the old-time lack of focus, balance, and precision? Both Sir Laurence and Saint Cyril should attend to wending their ways by mending their maze...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Middling 'Midsummer Night's Dream' Opens | 7/3/1967 | See Source »

...SAINT (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Simon Templar (Roger Moore) encounters a cult that worships Rome's glories in "The Man Who Liked Lions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 30, 1967 | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

Down the street from the Rococo, in a dimly lit basement nightclub, a shaggy combo, the Golden Boys, hammered out a lilting press release for Saint Vitus Cathedral, "Pride of all Gothic." The locale may be different, but anyone west of the Carpathians would recognize the tune as Winchester Cathedral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe: In the Socialist Groove | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

Mutual Education. On file in Saint-Cloud are 930,000 identity cards, 60,000 sets of fingerprints and 5,000 photos of "specialized criminals" classified according to year of birth, height and facial measurements under a telltale system that sometimes even plastic surgery cannot fool. Another ingenious file contains perforated cards that, superimposed, tell at a glance how many persons from different categories (men, women, Dominicans, Dahomeyans) have committed similar major crimes-especially useful when clues are nil. It works so well that Interpol does not even feel any need for computers. According to one official: "Once we get someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police: Global Beat | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

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