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...After a vain four-year effort to attract a share of the national audience, officials of Harvard Magazine threw in the towel this week and announced plans to publish the magazine under a new alumni-oriented format...
...novels. But the Middle East, no matter how bizarre, is not fictive, and in the end its complex ity forces Bellow to quote the urgent pas sage in Handel's Messiah: "Why do the nations so furiously rage together, and why do the peoples imagine a vain thing?" With the positing of that query, Bellow acknowledges that in the terri tory he has examined there are no easy answers. Indeed, there may be no answers at all - only questions. Still, it is vital to have those questions asked continually by men of talent and conscience and grace...
...actor-proof, bacause in the Leverett House production they need all protection they can get. The problem begins with director Samuel Bloomfield's conception of the play. The two sets of main characters--Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, the spoiled, young dandies, and Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew, the vain, young ingenues who wish for beaux named "Earnest"--should appear essntially interchangeable. Otherwise, the contusion of identities in the second act and the symmetry of the romantic pairings at the end make little dramatic sense...
Chiang Ch'ing herself was accused on wall posters of trying to murder Mao. Some said she had "nagged" him to death; others claimed she "ignored the doctor's advice and wanted to move [Mao] from his sickbed, trying in vain to kill him." The deputy political commissar of Canton also denounced "the self-styled student of our leader"-a reference to the fact that Chiang Ch'ing's wreath at Mao's funeral had been signed "your student and comrade-in-arms." One wall poster in Shanghai bluntly accused Mao's widow...
...famous actress and manager of Philadelphia's Arch Street Theater at the end of the last century, and grandmother of Lionel, Ethel and John Barrymore. Eva Le Gallienne's performance is a masterpiece. She is the clear, ringing voice of Kaufman's satirical commentary on all things fashionable, vain or sentimental, and the vechicle for some of his greatest lines. Sam Levene, probable most widely known as the first Nathan Detroit in the original Broadway production of Guys and Dolls, plays opposite her as Oscar Wolfe, the family's long-suffering theatrical manager, forever hoping to salvage some remnant...