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Trumpets and Drums is an adaptation of George Farquahr's The Recruiting Officer, written in 1706. The play was an ideal vehicle for Brecht to tinker with, for the conventions of Restoration comedy his theatrical purposes perfectly. His dream of a didactic theatre, where audiences could watch plays detachedly and learn from them, was spoiled on occasion by audiences that emotionalized over his characters. He rewrote the last scene of Mother Courage so that audiences would be disgusted as his heroine, he children all killed by the war, picked up her wagon and went off following the soldiers...
...JERRY M. TINKER Washington...
...private truths of religious crisis. The Devil's Advocate approached greatness. It used a fascinating but hypothetical public issue-the ecclesiastical investigation into the life of a possible saint-as backdrop to the private spiritual agony of a middle-aged monsignor dying of cancer. Then West began to tinker dangerously with the balance between private and public; his novels increasingly seemed to offer the inside dope about decisions of state, competing for the attention due the internal truths of spiritual life. The Shoes of the Fisherman was published at the time of the election of Paul VI; its hero...
...similar such have always been (exploiting the poor urban Negroes without shame or pity), had reason and will to do Malcolm X in. He represented a major threat to their influence and wealth (a few million bucks, so I'm told) and they were not going to let him tinker with it. Such use of violence by Negroes to protect petty establishments of corrupt influence and wealth is surely nothing...
...stalagmite in the great rotunda of Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum (see opposite page). Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture never had better tenants: a 361-piece retrospective that could equally well establish Calder as a wizard of the wind, a Wright Brothers' Rodin, or the greatest tinker of all time...