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...risen 30% in the past ten years, but book borrowing has doubled. At the 80 branches of New York City's public library system, up to half of last year's adult-book circulation came from borrowers aged 13 to 18. And the trend is away from shallow stuff. Toledo and Indianapolis wage a constant battle to replace literary classics worn out by youngsters. Other cities report that youngsters now borrow far more serious nonfiction books. "Today's teen-agers," says one veteran Manhattan librarian, "read about two years ahead of their counterparts 25 years...
...Justices Shallow and Silence provide two carefully done character vignettes. Except for a lapse into poor taste in excessive use of a palsied hand, Franklin Cover's feeble old Silence complements splendidly John Heffernan's Shallow, garrulous and in his dotage. Heffernan, in the first part, brings his talent to the role of Francis, the waiter. Caught between two masters calling for him, he looked for all the world like the proverbial ass, stranded midway between two bales...
...quietly slipped away. His counselors had designated him a "victim" for a training exercise. His orders were to wade to a small island some 400 yards off the river shore and "act like I was sick" until senior scouts arrived to save him. But George discovered that the river-shallow enough when the counselors had tested it that morning-had risen dangerously. Its swift current was washing a tricky pattern of gulleys and holes in the sandy bottom. A weak swimmer, he wisely decided to wade ashore and hunt up another, safer ford, farther upstream...
...increasing numbers through London's great British Museum, the famed Elgin Marbles may be the museum's best-known treasure. But equally magnificent in their way are the bas-reliefs (see color pages) from the palace of Assurbanipal, King of Assyria in the 7th century B.C. These shallow tablets recall an empire that once included Egypt on the south and Asia Minor on the north, with all the Fertile Crescent in between...
...almost the nimbler with his fortunes in decline. As in Part I, Eric Berry plays Falstaff with, fine, resourceful gusto; among his playmates, Gerry Jedd's Mistress Quickly, Franklin Cover's Silence and Ray Reinhardt's Pistol are all good, and John Heffernan's Shallow something better. The time-honored comic scenes keep their blend of rust and magic. The royal scenes, full of a rhetoric that needs a humanizing voice, fare a good deal less well. But where humor and humanity cooperate. Stuart Vaughan's staging is dynamic, and the two parts of Henry...