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After about a minute of this, two of the actresses, playing a noblewoman and her beautiful servant, moved away from the rest of the people toward the corner of the room from which they come on stage to open the second act. As they moved, they talked to each other, half as their characters, half as themselves, improvising their lines. Then, as they stood arguing, Cooper said, "All right, come on. Come on." And, as the rest of the cast was silent, the two girls cut from their improvised dialogue to the lines which open the second act. This time...
...much as it might some other directors. For one thing, as he admits, the plot of The Bonds of Interest could be swamped with little loss to anyone. (It is about two companions who arrive at a town. One assumes the role of a nobleman, the other his crafty servant, and so on.) For another, he is not terribly worried about putting on a technically polished production of the play. "After all," he explains, "we are a group of amateurs. There's something a little pretentious about our trying to present a very elegant, very polished production of a play...
From voyages into inner time and space, Laing says, men can be reborn, no longer alienated, but capable of a new kind of ego-functioning in which the ego is "the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer." The rediscovery of the inner components of experience is Laing's most constructive suggestion on the problem of alienation...
...Middle Franconia, few people remember the Kissingers. Before World War II, Henry Kissinger's father Louis, now 82 and living in Manhattan with his wife Paula, was a respected Studienrat, or high school teacher. The family enjoyed a middle-class life: a five-room flat, many books, a servant and a piano, which young Heinz avoided practicing whenever possible. He preferred soccer...
...Schwartz and Stoia leveled charges of inaction at the Council, they were backed by Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci. But the "servants of the rich" charge by Schwartz brought the pride of East Cambridge storming to his feet. "Do you know me so well that you can make a charge like that?" Vellucci roared. "I walked in picket lines long before you, and don't you dare tag Al Vellucci with being a servant of the rich, I don't know who your father is, but my father was a poor immigrant, and I have eight children to support. And where...