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...this sense are "Errors" and "Passions," each a kind of story-telling session among a group of men, evolving from simple tales into more complex elaborations on the same basic themes: mistakes and obsessions. In "Errors" the first of these two tales have been told when Meyer Eunuch, the wise one, interrupts to say that neither were really about errors, but willful malice, and then relates the story of a young man in rabbi school who makes a mistake so bad that his teacher says: "You want to be a rabbi? A shoemaker you should be." The point...
...than volume. The music was recorded separately, so that when the sing ers open their mouths to sing, the action is as natural and spontaneous as if they were speaking. During the overture and between scenes, Bergman cuts to faces in the audience, returning continually to one, the wondering, wise countenance of a girl who seems ageless. Recalling the director's childhood memories of the opera, she could serve as a surrogate for Bergman and perhaps for all of us. In her is reflected the joy and wisdom of The Magic Flute, which Bergman has captured here forever...
SHYLOCK remains unreconciled. How satisfied can we be about any "happy" ending that makes its sine qua non his humiliation? Director George Hamlin has taken a wise hint from Walter Kaiser and ended the play, not with the happy sight of lusty couples marching off to bed, but on a note of melancholy. Silhouetted against a night sky, Antonio wordlessly stares into a fountain, suggesting that the solutions on the play's surface are far from final...
...FALL of 1951, as the Cold War stepped up and the Truman Doctrine thawed U.S. relations with Spain, the Pentagon thought it wise to send a major-general to the Iberian peninsula on an indefinite fact-finding mission. Before the small data-gathering entourage got underway, all of the armed services decided to get in on the act, and when Generalissimo Franco saw that about 100 American military men had come to Spain he thought they had come to sign a defense treaty. The information gathered by this Pentagon milk-run was never made public, and while...
...adventurous, Lucia, which is described as a Cuban epic of love and revolution, makes its debut in the Science Center B on Saturday night. A wise man told me to steer away from epics, but maybe this is an exception, and at least you can be sure it isn't a remake of the Nibelungenlied...