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...Seville-born Manuela first blossomed on the international scene when she won the prestigious Theater of Nations Festival Dance Award in Paris in 1963. Daughter of a cattle salesman, she is an amateur bullfighter and a "purebred" Andalusian gitana (gypsy), whose ancestors have made flamenco a way of life for more than three centuries. In today's Spain, many flamenco performers are not even gypsies-or dancers either...
...Vichy is too consciously a "message play," resting too much on ideas and not enough on people. Miller's people cannot, unlike J. Alfred Prufrock or Moses E. Herzog, asks the big questions and yet stay in the skins their creators gave them. When Charley, in Death of a Salesman, tries to make Willy Loman the embodiment of the tragic salesman, he sounds phony. And when Quentin speaks of all men's guilt as his own, he too sounds phony. He is not a big enough figure to pass his private disasters off as the disasters...
...Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams. It is not pure happenstance that the three truest plays of the modern American theater, Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Williams' The Glass Menagerie, are family dramas. When the domestic relationship is illuminated by a playwright of size, intensity and perception, it becomes the perdurable stuff of human existence. All of these plays share two touchstones of the classic: inevitability and immutability. One cannot imagine their happening in any other way, and one cannot imagine a time...
...slowly up through the ranks; then his strong performance as works manager of an aluminum smelter at Rockdale, Texas, propelled him to Alcoa's Pittsburgh headquarters in 1955. Eight years later, he was elected president, a job that ROW pays him $155,000 a year. An incessant telephone salesman who keeps his desk clean of paperwork, Harper spends nearly half his time on flying trips seeking new customers to expand the market for aluminum-a product to which he is so dedicated that he even uses an aluminum shotgun on the skeet range. To stretch his considerable energies...
...salesmen leave their jobs just because the boss does not take their advice on company policy, but Bernard Cornfeld is no ordinary salesman. Nine years ago, he told his bosses at Manhattan's Investors Planning Corp., a mutual-fund sales firm, that they ought to expand overseas. The bosses said no; Cornfeld quit. He went overseas himself, set up a company that began by selling mutual-fund shares to G.I.s, has since become the largest mutual-fund sales organization outside the U.S. Last week Cornfeld closed a nostalgic deal to get back into the U.S. mutual-fund field...