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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very idea of the Charles Playhouse staging Brecht's magnum opus, Galileo, might draw a gasp of astonishment. The play requires elaborate production, many large and varied sets, a cast of fifty; and the script makes enormous demands of the actors. But with the help of Tony van Bridge, a fine Shakespearean actor imported from Canada to play Galileo, the Charles production remains competent throughout and occasionally flashes through to brilliance...
Brecht drew his Galileo as a big belching proletarian who would belch even in the Pope's presence. Tony van Bridge seems far too well-mannered with the Establishment, but among his scientist friends he back-slaps sufficiently. He brings extreme power to the role, perhaps too much. The rest of the Charles cast rarely reaches his heights or depths. Lynn Milgrim provides the one exception with her brilliant performance as Galileo's light-hearted daughter who changes into a madonna-like grey-haired spinster...
...JOHN B. VAN OGTROP, M.D. Aruba, Netherlands Antilles
Sanford Levinson's article, "The Supreme Court: Does It Have an Innovational Role?" is provocative, although, like Frank Sullivan reading Van Wyck Brooks, "I have been rendered cockeyed by the footnotes" (83 of them). Levinson defends the concept of an activist, innovational Supreme Court by attacking the two most distinguished advocates of judicial restraint, Holmes and Frankfurter...
Three-Ply Wall. Since it is impossible to observe such a process in living man, the investigators had to reconstruct their evidence from the dead. Cardiologist Meyer Friedman and Dutch-born Physiologist G. J. Van den Bovenkamp of the Harold Brunn Institute at Mount Zion Medical Center persuaded pathologists in hospitals near San Francisco to send them the occluded segment of coronary artery from each heart-attack victim on whom they had performed an autopsy. The two researchers sliced the coronary specimens crosswise, and after examining countless paper-thin specimens under the microscope, worked out the sequence of a typical...