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...Sleepwalkers, by Arthur Koestler. Anti-Communist Koestler takes a new tack, provides an animated lecture on the cosmologists who changed men's view of the heavens, including Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo...
...Persian Wives. A century after the great Atheno-Peloponnesian War (431 B.C. to 404 B.C.) all but destroyed the city-state, Macedonia's Alexander steered Hellenism off on another tack. Under the tutelage of Aristotle, he envisioned the brotherhood of man in a single universal state to which, in Toynbee's view, the earlier Hellenes had been so suicidally blind. In carving out his empire, he directed 80 of his highest-ranking officers to marry Persian women. But the experiment in marital one-worldism was shortlived. The Hellenic world continued to writhe in violent separatist agonies until Rome...
...Script for BB. Both Authors Caulfield and Moscow skillfully let the facts unfold their dramas. Novelist Cecil Scott (Hornblower) Forester takes the opposite tack, prefaces his little Bismarck book with the warning: "This is as it may have happened. The speeches are composed by the writer." In The Ship (1943) Briton Forester showed that he could get inside the skins and skulls of British naval officers and ratings. But in his saga of the great BB (battleship) Bismarck, half the protagonists are German, and Forester's attempts at characterization lapse into caricature. The lines he has written for them...
...part, the only sensible thing to do with love poetry, especially when the playwright has not used it to individualize the character who speaks it, is to say it as clearly and prettily as possible while still maintaining a reasonable degree of intensity. The Old Vic actors take this tack, and here again competence is the order of the evening, although Barbara Jefford is too solid and self-assured to be right for Viola. Half the pathos of the lorn and lonely girl, washed up on a strange and almost friendless coast, is lost when the actress gives the impression...
Marya Mannes, in The Reporter, took a position strongly favorable to the play but just as strongly unfavorable to the production. Kenneth Tynan, the London Observer's notoriously excoriating critic currently on loan to The New Yorker, took the opposite tack: "In every department the presentation is flawless. The same, unfortunately, cannot be said of the thing presented." Whereupon he let fly with a long barrage of his famed artillery at the play's content...