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Brecht's story is simple. A trio of God's in search of good people are introduced by a water seller (Steve Kaplan) to Shen Te (Trish Archer) a prostitute who is a good people. The Gods pay her for their night's lodging with enough money to start a small tobacco shop. Screaming freeloaders move in; she falls in love with a worthless unemployed flyer; her every good deed brings ruin. To save herself, she invents a businesslike, ruthless alter ego, Shui Ta, who is successful and dastardly. How to reconcile goodness and survival? Shen Te can't manage...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: The Good Woman of Setzuan | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...stage movement works best in small, humorous scenes like the early one of the itching, scratching, sneezing, retching freeloaders in Shen Te's tobacco store, and in the finale when a congregation of riffraff salutes the gods with raised mop as the "illustrious ones" fly away on a winch-raised cloud...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: The Good Woman of Setzuan | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...House half a block away, that night at a dinner in the White House described her as "not only a woman with an understanding heart but also a leader with a sense of vision." Wearing a gold-embroidered purple sari, her toenails painted red, Mrs. Gandhi chatted tête-a-tête with the President before and after the meal, left as soon as Violinist Isaac Stern finished his performance and before the dancing began. Explained she: "My countrymen would not approve if they heard I had been dancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: A New Bloom | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...with gemütlich prosperity. Unemployment shrank last year to a negligible 2%, and wages rose faster (10%) than the cost of living (6%). Last week pre-Easter shoppers crowded Vienna's Kärntnerstrasse, splurging on everything from spring ski sweaters to imported delicacies like pâte de foie gras and French Beaujolais. Swarms of Volkswagens, Fords and Austrian-built Puchs choked the streets of downtown Vienna, where private autos were a rarity only ten years ago. Travel reservations for the Easter holiday were virtually unobtainable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria: Troubled Affluence | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). You have to get up early in the morning to catch a show with a name like "Te Deum for J. Alfred Prufrock"-a dramatic reading commemorating T. S. Eliot's death a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Jan. 28, 1966 | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

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