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...TERM "Story Theatre" describes a certain type of play using imaginative improvisations, direct interchange with the audience and dialogue interspersed with songs and chants. Beginner's Luck, a new play based on the Biblical tale of King Saul and David now running at the Reality Theater in Boston, employs such an approach, but rather than adding a new dimension to the narrative, it breaks up the plot's continuity and mars some of the play's best-written scenes...
...play, "Lost Cookies," which ran at Eliot House last term, was written last summer by Kramer and Adam Bellows, a Princeton student and son of Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow...
...social realism that flourished in depression was exhausted by prosperity. In the ensuing decades. Chicago's backwaters were described in livelier manner by Nelson Algren and Saul Bellow. Farrell gradually dropped out of sight, his books published but ignored by critics and readers who had moved on to other themes, higher styles. The old pro stayed on his outworn turf producing characters who still dumbly battled circumstance, like cuttlefish trying to redirect the tide. Olive and Mary Anne is the fixture as before. Its five tales are confined to the standard Farrell inventory: lives with insufficient love, the sorrows...
...Holiday. The book spans roughly 20 years: from the '50s, when an author's "sensibility" was all, to the '60s and '70s, when private ironies and quiet implosions of emotion gave way to a journalistic relevance. In current fiction that usually means female counterparts of Saul Bellow's Dangling Man. The crucial difference is that today most heroines seem free of the need to huff and puff about the Big Questions: the loss of tradition, unpardonable guilt, the death of God. They certainly never ponder man's fate...
Robert L. Cawley, Senate personnel director, and Saul Walter, Senate maintenance supervisor, were suspended without pay pending the committee's investigation of charges in The Boston Globe that the two men operated a private security guard business out of a State House office suite...