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...American Shakespeare Festival production of Othello in Stratford, Conn., perpetuates a tradition in which the play and its hero shrink with each successive revival. Moses Gunn and his director Michael Kahn proceed along the familiar tack that Othello is good, loving, noble, trusting and innocent until jealousy and grief tear him asunder. Gunn conveys all of these qualities admirably. His stage presence is commanding and his line delivery persuasive, though it is somewhat mannered when he elongates single words for emphasis...
...would love to be able to write: "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph...
...Shrinking Supertown. Yet Barthelme remains himself, with a clear, private antilogic running through almost all his stories. As a Texan transplanted to New York, his working premise seems to be that everything in the world of supertown is so oversize and so shrill that no one notices any of it. Mass anesthesia is the result. His remedy: to shrink life to the miniature so that the reader is obliged to bend and squint to see the madness, perfectly proportioned to a bizarre cameo...
...Middle Atlantic: The armies of office and service workers are in no danger of idleness, but manufacturing payrolls are starting to shrink. A general nervousness is in the air. In Delaware, a prosperous white-collar state, a decline in Du Pont profits that began last year is expected to force reductions in state spending-most likely for educational television and enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. The Pennsylvania government had to extend an extra $15 million in aid to Philadelphia to avert a shutdown of the city's schools...
...These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph...