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Harry Truman called his Cabinet and staff together last week in Washington. Margaret stuck her head in too. There was some thunder, a great many jokes, roars of laughter and peppery irreverences about people and politics...
...elected for the first time to the National Command, directs the crack 30,000-man "Defense Phalanx" guarding Damascus. A nephew commands the army's "Struggle Brigade" within the Phalanx, a brother-in-law the 20,000-man special forces, and a cousin the paratroop "Thunder Brigade...
...politics were likely to find themselves traveling in strange, hostile, bewildering countries, like Kafka's explorer. As the orphans poured in, and word began to spread that even the Saigon government's own troops might turn against withdrawing American troops, 'populist' papers like The Chicago Tribune began to thunder about incomprehensible Vietnamese ingratitude...
Antonin Artaud's The Concl, was written by the man who coined the "theater of cruelty" movement. And the story of The Concl, a murderous, incestuous Roman family of the late sixteenth century, is certainly cruel enough (Shelley used it when he wanted to write a blood-and-thunder Jacobean verse drama). Director Phill Hass is usually good at bright more or less esoteric Continental playwrights to English audiences, and The Concl should be a worthwhile evening. At Lehman Hall, tonight, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and next weekend...
...Africa, it is important for a girl to be a virgin when she marries." ∎ The Indian nations were in disarray. The Yakima were war-whooping over the seating arrangements, a Lummi complained about the food, and Sacheen Littlefeather was not there. On top of everything, there was Old Thunder Cloud himself, Marlon Brando, chiding the socialite nation for deserting its red brother. This uncomfortable powwow took place last week on a posh Manhattan reservation where Brando was chairman of a gala starring Guest of Honor Ethel Kennedy and Entertainers Harry Belafonte, Arlo Guthrie and Buffy Sainte-Marie to raise...