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...excitement of demonstrations. They get to know members of the other sub-cultures, perhaps even some actual demonstration participants, whose shoulders they can put their arm around and say, "Now, Mike, what's really going on here?" They can pal around with can pal around with administrators, with Sam Williamson (Dean May's demonstration man), or Burris Young (who is usually taking notes himself), or Archie Epps (who is looking enigmatic and knows which side...
...life to think, listen, grow, love, hate, suffer and endure. So rigorous is this demand that in these more than 31 centuries there have been no more than a dozen great Hamlets. Everyone who is alive today has the rare and illuminating privilege of seeing one of them-Nicol Williamson...
Dramatic Vise. This is a filmed version of the play (TIME, Feb. 28, 1969), and Williamson is a man of the theater in the same way that a tiger is a creature of the jungle. This means that he transcends the celluloid and holds the audience in a dramatic vise. His eyes sear the viewer. He is not speaking to the air; he is speaking to you. As far as Williamson is concerned, elocution be damned. Poetry be damned. Meaning is all. Never has Hamlet been rendered with more clarity or more biting timeliness, and that includes Gielgud, Olivier...
...Nicol Williamson's Hamlet...
...tradition that has failed?" Judging from Peggy Rizza's fine review of Anne Sexton's latest book, young poets are finally beginning to cast off the burden of "confessional" poetry. Paired with Miss Rizza's welcome boredom ("you wish she would talk of something else") is Alan Williamson's careful analysis of Lowell's Notebook 1967-8. Like so many other contemporary writers Lowell has moved toward a merging of private and public theme that hinges on a more detached view of the self and more self-involved view of events...