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...stranger seeing him for the first time striding along the campus of Princeton University or lunching with the boys at the Quadrangle Club, Robert Francis Goheen (rhymes with so keen) would hardly seem to be more than a typical Ivy-League graduate student. He has the uniform crew cut, usually wears the standard tweed jacket. But at 37, Assistant Professor Goheen is a first-rate classicist who has won the devotion of his students and the respect of his elders. Last week, after more than a year's search for a successor to retiring President Harold W. Dodds...
...Chicago's Bell Elementary School, nine-year-old Penny Golden had all the aplomb of a veteran trouper. Playing one of the wives of a sheik, she never missed a cue or muffed a line. But the most remarkable thing about her performance was the fact that no stranger in the audience could have guessed that Penny Golden is totally blind...
Banal and I were classmates. Our eyes had met, our bodies had met, and then someone introduced us . . . A stranger across the booth spoke. "Monique, what are you staring at, silly girl?" It was Banal. Curious that I hadn't recognized him. Suddenly I knew why. A revolting look of cheerfulness had twisted and distorted those clear young features until he seemed actually to be smiling...
...sister, a mixed-up male teacher of ballet, the sister's mixed-up young hipster admirer, and a brash, cocky intruder who drives a Jaguar, sneers at art, and gets involved with both sisters. Soon Playwright Nash, converting two pair into a full house, makes plain that the stranger is mixed...
...most unquiet desperation of the past few seasons. Possibly Playwright Nash, who showed plenty of humor in The Rainmaker and has glints of it here, intended something more relaxed. If so, his failure lies partly in an ill-wrought play, partly in an overwrought production. Barring the loudmouthed stranger (well-played by Pat Hingle), who for a time is invigorating, the characters do little more than suffer from upset psyches or indulge in the sexual miseries. Each revealing scene is repeated, with variations, two or three times, and betweenwhiles a neighborhood trumpeter steadily caterwauls offstage. All this not only destroys...