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MOST gifted in this alchemical effort are Daniel Seltzer as Caesar, and Susan Yakutis as Cleopatra. Seltzer's performance is especially impressive: not only are his readings rapid and controlled, but he succeeds in underplaying effectively a role which would tempt any actor to bravado. As the ultimate embodiment of the Shavian pragmatic, democratic, sympathetic Superman, he also manages to convey a vision of humility in majesty. Further, his discipline deserves to underline the character's moments of wit and emotion, and to set the lonely Caesar apart from the more broadly drawn figures who surround him. The greatest virtues...
...monetary price and its free-market price remains small. For the present, the latest $2 billion of gold to reach private hands creates a price-depressing oversupply in the market. If the free price rises to $45 per oz. or more, as some European moneymen predict, it may tempt some nations to sell official gold for the profit. Hoping to prevent that, the U.S. last week made it clear that its gold window will be shut to governments that refuse to cooperate with the new system. Could a central bank dump gold on the free market secretly? "Impossible," insisted German...
This idyllic if incomplete image is soon shattered by the realities of Wisconsin politics. "Of all fifty states of the Union," writes Theodore White in Making of the President 1960, "Wisconsin is probably that state in which professional politicians most hate to tempt a primary." It is a vast and rugged land, and in political terms, unorganized and totally unpredictable...
...narrative form, that apple-pie order march of elements we all know and love--elements like time, cause and effect, motivation (spell it out, son), resolution. Yes, they all break down. (Like the junkyard, like Anastasia--you've got it now, BREAKDOWN is the theme.) The threads of plot tempt you to join a surrealistic scavenger hunt. Don't. Don't fumble about for a catenary of explanation and logistic. You're likely to miss the vision, and the vision is Anastasia Vote...
...Center for Research on Creative Altruism may tempt some to make light of Sorokin. But he was a scholar and an innovator, and his books will be studied by sociologists for many years...