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...This is the winter of our dicontent,' The Shakespearian line keeps pounding in the brain as one watches the aging Henry II of The Lion in Winter try to hold together the tenuous union of twelfth century fiefdoms he had built. But with one son unable to understand why a house must be undivided and with the other wickedly conspiring with his mother to usurp all, King Henry doesn't have much of a chance from the start. By staging the production in late March, the Leverett House drama society is only readapting an adaptation, known better as the movie...
...series of hotly debated bills. Had the measures been defeated, Prime Minister James Callaghan could have been forced to dissolve the Commons and call for new elections. The closeness of the votes was further proof that Callaghan's hold on No. 10 Downing Street has become as tenuous as the value of a pound note...
Observed Reality. McNeill is usually convincing, though his originality is demonstrated less through the use of new research than through the application of an unexpected point of view. His ingenuity reaches tenuous heights when he says that man's inability to deal with disease delayed the onset of the Enlightenment. After all, he writes, "A world where sudden and unexpected death remains a real and dreaded possibility . . . makes the idea that the universe is a great machine whose motions are regular, understandable, and even predictable, seem grossly inadequate to account for observed reality...
...unity' is yet another dose of escapism." Callaghan's predecessor, former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, told TIME that he opposed such a plan in peacetime because a national government "almost invariably produces fudged decisions." Moreover, Wilson added, the inclusion of Tories in the government would jeopardize the tenuous working agreement between the Callaghan government and the unions and lead to widespread labor unrest...
...Genesis, interspersing modern-day anecdotes and events with re-enactments of chapters of the First Book. He seems to believe that the Old Testament offers an eternal guide to human psychology and the model for a vaguely cyclical interpretation of history. But the analogies he sets up are tenuous and, one suspects, carelessly thought out. The mythical and the mundane are only superficially integrated, and the serious analysis which the playwright looks to be inviting is better left untried...