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...STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: Coined in its present context by Connecticut Newspaper Editor Charles Dudley Warner in 1850, when he wrote: "True it is that politics makes strange bedfellows." He stole it from Shakespeare's The Tempest (Act II, Scene 2), in which Trinculo, forced by a storm to seek refuge under a sheet with the abhorrent Caliban, says: "There is no other shelter hereabout: misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows...
...magic. And, when all ended, it was I suspect the magic that those people remembered, not exactly the play they had seen performed. Verse plays aren't noted for evoking mass gut reactions. The ambitious and verbally complex Mayer-Babe adaptation gets a little lost in the tempest nightly at Agassiz, and that's not to say that the play is weaker than its dazzling production. A Tim Mayer and (to a lesser extent) a Thom Babe show is like a great big present; there's so much of this one you'll just have to see it twice...
...completed in 1947, this brilliant, troubling work is usually thought to be about World War II. The composer denied it, but the first three movements make up a harrowing musical storm that subsides at last into a serene speculation for strings inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep." The Lark Ascending is a delicate, attenuated tone poem for violin, played by Hugh Bean with proper lyricism. Conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult certainly lives up to his reputation as Vaughan...
...Oldsmobile (up 14.4%) were the biggest gainers. At the Chevrolet division, the Chevy II, a model that falls somewhere between the compact and the intermediate, had sales of nearly 90,000 units, up 45% from last year. Pontiac sales (up 7.3%) are once again being led by the intermediate Tempest...
...last week, as some 500 of the company's 52,000 bewildered stockholders gathered for their annual meeting in Manhattan, A. & P. was in a first-rate tempest. With their stock crushed down from its 1961 peak of $70 (it closed last week at $26.75), A. & P. shareholders have long been restless over the company's declining (now 18%) share of grocery-chain sales. Last year its profit of $56 million (on sales of $5.4 billion) was off a bit from the previous year, despite Jay's robust prediction that earnings would be "running at a record...