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Rumpus Room. The children's rumpus room of the U.S. theater is the off-off-Broadway café house-usually an operation that is long on valor but considerably shorter on value. Typical of this arena is Collision Course, a show consisting of eleven short plays, most of them by café-nurtured playwrights, presented last week at Manhattan's Café Au go Go. All were esthetic stillbirths. Alternating between juvenile temper tantrums and thumb-sucking private reveries, they dwelt on the tried-and-trite themes of alienation, lack of communication, male-female hostility, the nausea...
Mexico has been invaded before. Complained a Mayan of the Spanish conquistadors: "They shriveled up the flowers. Without knowledge, without valor, without shame, they had only come to castrate the sun. And the sons of their sons stayed among us, and we only received their bitterness...
...Dudley House Drama Society is not without guts. It takes a certain amount of courage for a house to attempt a Shakespeare production in the first place, and to take a stab at the often treacherous Merchant of Venice requires valor well beyond the ordinary. The astonishing thing is that those Dudley people just don't give a damn. They go right out onto that tiny Lehman Hall stage and play The Merchant of Venice. They seize the work by the lapels, shake it for nearly all they can hope to get out of it and throw what they find...
Lincoln lost all patience and appointed Ambrose Burnside to take McClellan's place. With even less agility, Burnside also snatched defeat from the jaws of victory at Fredericksburg, where a correspondent observed that "it can hardly be in human nature for men to show more valor, or generals to manifest less judgment...
...Colonel Robin Olds, U.S.A.F., a man of great courage and valor-the "typical" American. MRS. RUSSELL A. KAHLER Bonita, Calif...