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...language comes from the alliterative, rhyming poetry of medieval English miracle, or mystery, plays, chiefly the York, Wakefield, Chester and Coventry cycles, but the visual imagery is imaginatively modern: God sits in judgment on a whirling metal cage of a world, and Jesus ascends into heaven on a forklift truck. Director Bill Bryden has preserved the vernacular tone and naive simplicity of the originals and has staged the action so that much of the audience can mingle with the actors. The atmosphere is festive yet never trivial, and whatever a spectator's religious convictions, the cumulative power of the story...
...were saved because the road at that point swung high up the hillside. "I have seen the end of the world," Jellici exclaimed. Other travelers were not so fortunate. Bank Employee Mario Deflorian spoke of his cousin Lucio Deflorian, a carpenter: "He was coming down the road in a truck with his two sons, Umberto, 18, and Clemente, 24. Right away he guessed what was happening. He yelled, 'Get out! Get out!' The two boys escaped by running into the forest. The father was swept away. He disappeared." But another cousin, Lucia Volgang, remains optimistic he will be found...
...meet President Reagan. Before that, Shevardnadze will see Secretary of State George Shultz in Helsinki, on July 30. Shultz may ask for an explanation of the latest confrontation between Soviet and American military personnel in East Germany. On June 13, a U.S. Army vehicle was rammed by a Soviet truck near Potsdam. One U.S. officer was injured slightly...
...situation in Africa has deteriorated, some foreign donors have responded with more aid. A consortium that includes the U.S. and the European Community is helping repair Sudan's washed-out rail line. The Community and several member countries have agreed to provide air and truck transportation to meet shortages created by rail problems...
French will have no truck with biological explanations for male-female differences in attitude and behavior. Even the larger size and greater musculature of males, an obvious factor in discussing male domination of women, is dismissed. Size cannot be important, she reasons, since young males do not usually beat up their smaller fathers. By discounting all other factors that might explain why males think and act similarly around the world, French is left with the patriarchal theory. This long-running conspiracy, insists Beyond Power, is responsible for the abuse of the environment, the invention of the state and the idea...