Word: succession
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aristotle Onassis. If he were American, his success story would be considered a typical American boy's dream come true. We admire him most of all for getting the Bride of the Year...
...Relevant Choices. During the presidential campaign, Nixon frequently criticized the Democrats for handling the foreign field on a crisis-to-crisis basis without sufficient advance planning. Talking of the Eisenhower years, Nixon said that the NSC had been "the con- trolling element in our success in keeping the peace." He attributed "most of our serious reverses abroad since 1960 to the inability or disinclination of President Eisenhower's successors to make effective use of the council...
This carping aside Ruddigore must be counted in good measure a success. The songs are skillfully performed and the libretto is still recognizably one of Gilbert's funniest. Randall L. Darwell's set is, as usual, a pleasing contraption. Still, I urge you to leave the few remaining tickets at the box office. One or two empty seats at the back of the Agassiz might convince the Gilbert and Sullivan players to stop paying exclusive attention to the things they do well and consider some they...
...language and vibrant, Dickensian characters make Pantagleize a powerful play no matter which side of the barricades you stand on. Gordon Ferguson's Chaplinesque portrayal of Pantagleize, probably de Ghelderode's finest creation, contributes a giant share to making Dunster House's production a rousing and boisterous, though imperfect, success...
...last scenes are the best. The splendidly terrifying generalissimo is trying the revolutionaries for their assorted crimes. The revolutionaries' state-appointed lawyer, done very amusingly by Ken Pauker, argues for them with little success or enthusiasm. The play works so well here because all the characters are involved in the same activity, the trial, and all are, finally, very loose. In the epilogue Pantagleize roams on a darkened stage, amid more corpses than there are at the end of Hamlet, looking for an imaginary exit. Here is de Ghelderode's metaphor for modern existence: we are all dying...