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...play, In the Jungle of the Cities, Bertolt Brecht furnished the theater of the absurd with its basic theme. Two men, Shlink and Garga, engage in a fierce but motiveless contest, and Shlink tries to sum it up: "If you crammed a ship full of human bodies till it burst, the loneliness inside it would be so great that they would turn to ice . . . so great is our isolation that even conflict is impossible." Although Brecht abandoned the theater of the absurd for social protest, his isolation theme has been endlessly restated by the absurdists in terms...
...year, this time the U.N.'s new members, as well as the U.S.'s own allies, insisted on the debate-and indeed the U.S. position was strong enough to bear discussion. The expected conclusion: despite all the talk. Red China will be kept out again, at least till next year...
Kolko arrived at Kresge slightly after 6 p.m. He said last night, "The first thing the police looked for was our entertainment license." According to Kolko, "the police practically succeeded in closing the place by intimidating the manager. Up till 7:15 p.m. the place was closed...
...antiaircraft guns, donated nearly $50 million to libraries and laboratories around the world, but never quite stilled the doubts aroused by his suspected dealings with the Nazis in World War II; of cancer; in Stockholm. A consummate salesman, Wenner-Gren worked in obscure jobs in Sweden and the U.S. till he was nearly 40, then proceeded to put together an industrial empire based on Electrolux vacuum cleaners and Servel refrigerators, hobnobbed with dictators, Prime Ministers and Presidents throughout the Western world till the outbreak of World War II, when he fled by yacht to Mexico, where he spent many...
...envoy to Norway and Poland, athletic, impeccably tailored Tony Biddle served brilliantly during the early days of World War II as simultaneous ambassador to seven Allied governments in exile, subsequently switched over to a staff job at Dwight Eisenhower's SHAEF and stayed on in the Army till his 1955 retirement as a major general, returned to diplomacy only last March at the behest of President Kennedy...