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...Absence of O'Hara. There was a great deal that wanted altering in lona Station, Ont., the dour, Scot-dominated farming community in which Galbraith grew up. "It was a dreadfully barren existence up there," says his younger sister, Mrs. Catherine Denholm, now a resident of the pleasant town of Elora, Ont. "It was totally arid." William Galbraith, a schoolteacher turned farmer, was a 6-ft. 8-in. giant like his son, but unlike him in other respects. Shy and modest, he nonetheless became a leading light in the local branch of the Liberal Party...
...TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO and THE STRONG BREED. Wole Soyinka, the foremost black African playwright, is being detained in a Nigerian jail, but his two one-acters have traveled well to Manhattan. Brother Jero, played with finesse by Harold Scot, is a delightful spoof of the self-declared prophets who hold ceremonies for their "customers" on the beach. The Strong Breed is more of a myth-play, delving into the realm of tribal taboos with the tale of a stranger who becomes a village's sacrificial scapegoat...
...attack, the boy and two friends had sniffed 15 tubes of airplane and plastic glue. Ruled the judge: "The boy is not guilty of the charge by reason that he was incapable of controlling his actions at the time of the killings." The young defendant did not get off scot free, faces a mental hospital or training school until he is 19 as a result of an earlier, unrelated offense. But Lincoln's ruling was still a rehictant one. Even as he made it, he called for new legislation that would make similar future homicides indefensible on grounds...
...comedy in the English language until Shakespeare himself surpassed it in Twelfth Night. It is undeniably true that Dream is an unusually eclectic work, drawing its material from Plautus, Plutarch, Ovid, Apuleius, Chaucer, French romance, Italian commedia dell'arte, a couple of earlier English plays, popular folklore, and even Scot's nonfiction treatise The Discoverie of Witchcraft. But Shakespeare worked everything up into a fresh plot of his own -- or, rather, a skillfully unified interlocking set of three plots -- involving four classes of people from supernatural beings down to manual laborers. And on this work he lavished lots...
Trace of a Burr. A sprightly Scot who speaks with a trace of a burr, McCracken estimates that he has delivered more than 5,000 sermons since deciding to become a minister, at the age of 17, upon hearing a lecture by a visiting Congo missionary. McCracken, who held pastorates in Edinburgh and Glasgow and taught at Canada's McMaster University before coming to Riverside, firmly believes that "a theology that isn't preached has something lacking." He argues that the Biblical message has not lost its relevance and provides an antidote to what he calls...