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Sculptor Louise Nevelson; author and critic V.S. Pritchett; Japanese economist Shigeto Tsuru '35; and medical pharmacologist Sir John W. Black round out this year's list of honoraries, which is one less than last year's 11 honorands...
...Sir John W. Black, medical pharmacologist...
...Sir John W. Black, who will turn 61 next week, has until recently been director of the Therapeutic Research at the Wellcome Research laboratories in Kent England. He headed the Department of Pharmacology at University College. London, from 1973 to 1977, and has taught physiology and pharmacology at numerous universities...
...Sir, do we get to win this time...
...director has discovered a comic sensibility of excess that could hold the seeds of a brilliant production. Kilty litters the stage with throwaways, sight gags (a very prominent Cherub's phallus is put to some inventive uses), and blatant two-dimensional parodies. Two pedants, Holofernes (Jeremy Geidt) and Sir Nathanid (Harry S. Murphy), converse while playing a hilariously dishonest game of croquet; the clownish Constable Dull (John Bottoms) runs his bike into a hedge; the Queen of France enters in a '37 Cadillac (What is behind the ART's fascination with getting vehicles on stage?). Most attempts to include dancing...