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...choreography of flashing swords held like switchblades, the 28-year-old Italian director caused a transatlantic sensation by staging the Old Vic's final Romeo and Juliet as if it were an adaptation of West Side Story. This year, in a production that has become a Roman sellout, he has excised most of the melancholia from the melancholy Dane, replacing it with angry young slang and a revised standard version. "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt," for example, has become "Why doesn't this flesh, this heavy carcass of meat, dissolve?" The play is done...
...Giants' seventh sellout in seven home games, giving them estimated gate receipts of $2,200,000 v. $3,000,000 for the baseball Yankees in 68 home dates last season...
...Princeton pulled even, edged ahead. And then, with 3½ min. to play and Princeton leading 77-72, Bradley fouled out-after 40 points and 16 rebounds. That was it. St. Joseph's won in overtime, 82-81. But the evening belonged to Bradley, and the sellout crowd in the Philadelphia Palestra gave him a standing ovation...
...deal was promptly and bitterly attacked by foes from all sides. Nenni's pro-Communist wing continued to denounce it as a sellout to the bourgeoisie. Liberal Spokesman Giovanni Malagodi said the coalition heads Italy "directly toward Communist shores." Comrade Palmiro Togliatti sneered at Nenni's claim that the Socialists would change things once they got into government, and snapped: "We could define such a vision of power as Stalinist...
...center-left coalition is neither Stalinist nor a sellout. It is a muddled alliance between parties of essentially different aims, and it could break up at any time. The future, as Moro said, "is new, difficult and full of problems...