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Here is Miguel Angel Asturias, the leftist, Nobel-prizewinning novelist (El Señor Presidente, The Green Pope), relaxing over tea in his Paris home and recalling his 1920s youth in dictator-ridden Guatemala. The leaders, he says, "kept themselves hidden, spinning evil from secret corners like spiders." In protest, he created his "literature of commitment" to call attention to poverty and death on banana plantations and in quebracho forests...
...Moscow began levying its now celebrated "education tax" on would-be emigrants. It is a tough measure; a younger Russian who has benefited from training at a state university might be required to pay an exit fee of as much as $30,000. The tax is not discriminatory per se, because-the fact is often overlooked-it applies to all Russians. But it falls heavily on Jews, a large percentage of whom are university-trained...
...supposedly set in 1919, the year in which the original musical was produced, the show is not nostalgic about anything. It fails to evoke a mood, a tone, a memory of any clearly definable period or place. It is strictly a product of the Broadway showshops peddling nostalgia per se, just as they peddled nudity per se two or three seasons ago as another hot line of goods...
Before the performance begins, Señor Don Pepe Hernandez, a third-rate impresario who bills himself as "el compere extraordinario" has advertised in the local press of Trujillo, Honduras, that he has assembled a nightclub act of internationally famous cabaret stars. They include Señor Blind Joe Jackson (el blues cantante de Jackson, Mississippi), Giuseppe y Giovanni (el duo dinamico de Milano, Italia), and Las Dos La-La-Las (dos chiquitas frivolantes de Barcelona, Espa...
...Producer Joseph Papp's fondest boasts is that he can bring Shakespeare to TV- and make people love it. Television needs more such boasters. Last week, in the first of a se ries of plays his New York Shakespeare Festival is producing for CBS, Papp scored a clear triumph...