Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nowhere has independence been so agonizing as in the Congo. After the Belgians left, tribal warfare and secession sent the once promising young nation slithering almost instantly back toward the Stone Age. Today, in Katanga's Elisabethville, once a delightful, well-fed little city, meat hunters sell rats to hungry housewives. Congolese, from children to Cabinet ministers, play the game of je souffre, their long faces proclaiming their suffering even while their hands reach out for matabich-the bribe. The bribe rarely works for long. Says one would-be fixer with frank wistfulness: "You can't buy these...
Diver Dan Mahoney, suffering from a stone bruise, and Henry Frey, Elliott Miller, Earl Showerman, and Joe Stetz, all suffering from hour exams, will not make the trip...
Such all-out partying is a privilege of old-house inhabitants that Levittownsmen know not of. Manhattan Executive Edgar Smith has two large living rooms in his 1784 house in Morris Township, N.J., which enable adults and children to entertain separately. And in their 60-year-old stone house at Chestnut Hill, Pa., English Teacher Richard H. Tyre and his wife have been able to make an entire wing off limits for their three children (eleven, seven and two). With 24 rooms, they can afford to set aside one as a "Birthday Party Room," for "little kids with sticky fingers...
...David Stone tackles the role of Tamburlaine with marvelous common sense. Since he does not have to act, he is freed from the gesturing and stamping about the stage that are usually used to underscore Tamburlaine's noisy speeches. He keeps his face almost expressionless through most of the production, and reads his lines with all the restraint possible. He still can't tone the speeches down quite enough; there is simply too much noise and it tires the listener after awhile. But except in his utterly unconvincing expressions of love for Zenocrate during the first act, Stone's vocal...
...Zenocrate starts slowly, making no effort to smooth the queen's sudden transformation from hatred of Tamburlaine to love for him. This particular roughness is largely Marlowe's fault; as the play moves along, Miss Gitter's acting gets smoother. In her death scene, the production reaches its climax. Stone's outbursts of emotion and Miss Gitter's lovely reading are supplemented by some dazzling work with the lighting by David Levine...