Word: tenderizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Marcel Pagnol, 79, Provençal schoolteacher turned playwright (Topaze) and filmmaker (The Baker's Wife) whose tender stage-screen trilogy of life on the Marseille waterfront was the basis of the Broadway musical Fanny (1954-56); in Paris...
Under whose feet even grass grows tender...
...fascist slogans make sense, like Azdak's Solomon-like decision that Grusha keeps the governor's child because she won't try to pull him from a circle in a tug-of-war with the governor's ambitious widow. As a result, The Caucasian Chalk Circle has a traditional, tender, open quality that Brecht rarely allowed himself, and an archetypal quality that makes its hope seem universal, the natural birthright, sold again and again but somehow always recovered, of all the people of a constantly changing world...
Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle ranks with the greatest plays ever written. It's based on an old legend about a wise judge who has to decide which of two mothers a child belongs to, and it has a tender quality that blends with the acerbic honesty you expect from Brecht. The Winter's Tale is the only other play I know with as deep a feeling for dialectic change and the hope it makes possible. With any kind of production, it should be a good play not to miss. Opens tonight, 7:30 p.m. at the Loeb...
...player of the week by virtue of his spectacular 39-save effort against the Crimson, whom he held scoreless for the first 53 minutes of the contest. Only Bob Goodenow's drive, in the midst of a five-minute Harvard power-play, managed to elude the acrobatic net tender...