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...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...
...Senator Edward Kennedy confesses that he has always been "terribly squeamish" about illness. But, determined that son Teddy will have tender care, he plans to take on a nurse's role. The boy will need chemotherapeutic injections for a time to ward off a recurrence of the cancer that necessitated amputation of his leg last November. Doctors suggested that a nurse visit the Kennedy home, but the Senator demurred. Instead, he is learning to wield the needle himself so that he can give the painful and unsettling treatments and help allay the boy's fears...
...from America." It's about the visit to an old couple from their American son, gone so long and changed so much that his parents can't recognize him at first, and it seems to say that under the right circumstances it's possible at least to imagine tender change, change that lets its subjects love each other and themselves, so that the one certainty in Singer's world can sometimes be a happy...