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...Fontanne production, they establish their own interpretations with unstrained validity. Rachel Roberts brings a commandingly icy meanness to Clara while hinting at a lost tenderness. In recent seasons, John McMartin has established himself as an actor of distinctive range. He has played the disenchanted author in Follies, the skeptical servant Sganarelle in Moliere's Don Juan, and the mask-divided soul Dion Anthony in O'Neill's The Great God Brown. Now, as the hero of The Visit, he is initially bland, wistfully nostalgic about his early romance, then terrified and finally stoically resigned. Paradoxically, his work...
...from most indications, Watergate had little impact on the race, Beame is the type of candidate who is likely to be popular in a post-Watergate electorate. He is staid, cautious, has a reputation for scrupulous honesty, and is too old to be ambitious. Beame is the classic civil servant, the man who once taught accounting in one of New York's high schools. He is an official of overarching caution, awed by risk, frightened by intuition...
...other model Eppinger follows is the old school one -- of physician as community servant. He says he thinks a doctor's first responsibility is to his community. He refuses to talk politics (except at home); he says he is "divorced from the main stream academically and politically ... and happy...
...patrons, complaining of the flattery and hypocrisy at the court, but the Spanish royalty must have thought his comments harmless, for they continued their support. He was even invited to play for Victoria, whom he later remembered for the "white veil she wore on her head and the Hindu servant who placed a footstool at her feet...
...classic in Women's Lib anthologies. Consumption, while basically fun, says Galbraith, also involves a lot of work: maintenance of house, appliances and automobiles; food preparation; and "participation in competitive social display " Current economic truths presume that these duties fall to women, who are thus in a "crypto-servant" class. "Menially employed servants were available only to a minority of the pre-industrial population," Galbraith straight-faces. "The servant-wife is available, democratically, to almost the entire present male population." Unless women comply with their "convenient social virtue," the author goes on, "the possibility of increasing consumption would...