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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...costumes reflect today's world. Some of the young citizens carry portable radios. The conspirator Cinna comes in from the rainstorm with a wet umbrella; he carries a businessman's attache case, which when opened turns out to contain knives for the murder (one recalls the old-time gangsters who used to conceal machine guns inside violin cases). The conspirators wear three-piece business suits. The conspiracy is hatched in a cocktail lounge; Artemidorus, the rhetoric teacher, who will try to warn Caesar of the plot, has become a journalist who eavesdrops and takes notes in a reporter...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A 20th-Century 'Julius Caesar'... ...an 18th-Century 'Twelfth Night' | 7/17/1979 | See Source »

Marcus Brutus, the play's longest role, is in the hands of Kenneth Haigh. In 1956 Haigh burst on the scene as the original Angry Young Man in Osborne's Look Back in Anger. Now, in 1979 (the year he turns 47, 49 or 50, depending on what source you credit), Haigh is the Stoic Middle-Aged Man. Clearly at home in Shakespeare's language, Haigh speaks with cool conviction and command, and a feeling for the verse rhythms...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A 20th-Century 'Julius Caesar'... ...an 18th-Century 'Twelfth Night' | 7/17/1979 | See Source »

...danger of imprisonment or torture, even of beheading, hanging and burning at the stake, sometimes for refusal to reveal the source of confidential information. Until nearly the end of the 18th century, libel in Britain was readily used to jail journalists and others. John Walter, publisher of the young London Times, was confined for nearly a year and a half to Newgate Prison, from which he managed to run his newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Press, the Courts and the Country | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

EXPLODING STAR: A YOUNG AUSTRIAN AGAINST HITLER by Fritz Molden Morrow; 280 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anti-Reich | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...infatuation was short-lived. Maass details the lightning arrests-76,000 political undesirables jailed even before Hitler entered Vienna. He charts the merciless Aryanization of businesses and the swift disappearance of Jews from public life. He records the beginnings of a resistance that would grow through the war: 13 young Austrians refusing to take an oath of allegiance to Hitler; Socialist Otto Haas, building his network of anti-Nazi information; Father Roman Karl Scholz founding his Austrian Freedom Movement. All were caught and executed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anti-Reich | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

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