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...M.L.A. convention in Denver, Professor Kampf was elevated to first vice president, which puts him in line next year to succeed the association's new president, Shakespearean Scholar Maynard Mack, chairman of the Yale English department. The delegates gave up trying to pass resolutions after stormy debate over a number of proposals, most of them offered by dissidents. Among other things, they wanted the association to demand that colleges hire women teachers in the same proportion that they are represented in the U.S. population (51%) and provide free day-care centers for their children; also included was a repeat...
...third episode that keeps Spirits alive. Never Bet the Devil Your Head is Federico Fellini's first film since Juliet of the Spirits, and it is a 40-minute excursion across the surreal landscape of his boundless imagination. Never centers on a washed-up Shakespearean actor named Toby Dammit (Terence Stamp) who has come to Rome to star in "the first Catholic Western." He is hounded by his own self-contempt and haunted by a vision of a corrupt cupid from hell, a devil in crinoline (Marina Yaru), who appears before him bouncing a large and somehow ominous white...
TWELFTH NIGHT offers its comical Shakespearean turns at the Monomoy Theater in Chatham, Mass...
James Reston of the New York Times concluded that the real question "is not whether the voters of Massachusetts can live with the Senator's account of the tragedy, but whether he can." To Columnists Frank Mankiewicz and Tom Braden, the case was tragic "in the Shakespearean sense of a puzzlement of the will, of judgment suspended and flawed at a crucial moment...
...OREGON SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL, Ashland (July 19-Sept. 7). The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night and King John are the varied fare of the Elizabethan theater's 29th season. Virtue in Danger, an updated romantic musical escapade revived from the 17th century by Screenwriter-Lyricist Paul Dehn and Composer James Bernard, will serve as the matinee, a light after-lunch petite farce...