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This "musical play" plants Cervantes in the dungeons of the Inquisition and pivots on the device of having him defend himself and his book in a mock trial by acting out the role of the knight of the woeful countenance. The indictment is modishly mock-cynical a la 1965; not the worst of the evening's sentimentalities is: "I charge you with being an idealist, a bad poet and an honest man. How plead you?" With this cue, the good grey don (Richard Kiley) whirls into his act. He tilts at windmills, mistakes an inn for a castle where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Quixote by Quixote | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...Quakers have a pair of good sophomore quarterbacks, who may demonstrate that Dartmouth's impressive defensive statistics are a bit misleading. The Indians' big question mark is their pass defense, and it wasn't tested by woeful New Hampshire or by pass-poor Holy Cross last week...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Princeton Battles Cornell In Crucial League Contest | 10/9/1965 | See Source »

...turned out to be far less an educational forum than a platform for intra-academy cattiness and pointless caterwauling. Anti-Administration speakers showed a woeful lack of accurate information and a disturbing tendency to use only the facts that proved their case for reduction or total abolition of the U.S. involvement in Asia. The star performer-and chief advocate for the Administration-was to have been McGeorge Bundy, the President's No. 1 White House aide on foreign affairs. At the last minute. Bundy sent his regrets, saying only that he could not attend because of "other duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Confident in His Course | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...Klokan, the Klokard and the Kloncilium, the Klonklave and the Klonvokation, the Kloran and the Kla-rogo, the Klorero and the Kludd.* In the Klan Kalendar, the days of the week were named Dark, Deadly, Dismal, Doleful, Desolate, Dreadful and Desperate; the weeks of the month were Woeful, Weeping, Wailing, Wonderful and Weird, and the months Bloody, Gloomy, Hideous, Fearful, Furious, Alarming, Terrible, Horrible, Mournful, Sorrowful, Frightful and Appalling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE VARIOUS SHADY LIVES OF THE KU KLUX KLAN | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...might learn a lot from this," philosophized Producer Levine. But what? For one thing, not to bring in even a musical with such a predictable, progressionless plot. Nor one with such woeful gags or sappy lyrics ("I'll take you where it snows and talk poetic prose"). Among other liabilities: no name star to sell the benefit fringe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: The Felled Angel | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

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