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...past five years she has been living in England with Second Husband John Hopkins, an English playwright, playing housemum to her two daughters and doing needlepoint. She has returned, she says, because "I discovered that acting is what I do best." The Hopkins family now lives in suburban Chappaqua, N.Y. Her next role, as a woman who becomes sexually involved with another woman, has been written for her by her husband. The practical side of Shirley might find it a bit discomfiting. The professional Knight can't wait. Says she: "I want to do work that takes chances...
...addition the book, edited by Rabbi Chaim Stern of Chappaqua, N.Y., drops "thee" and "thou" in addressing the Deity (only "you" is now used) and downplays expressions like "our fathers," which are now deemed to be sexist. It also incorporates the words of moderns like Alfred North Whitehead and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and these lines from William Blake: "It is an easy thing to laugh at wrathful elements,/ To hear the dog howl at the wintry door, the ox in the slaughter house moan;/ To see a god on every wind & a blessing on every blast...
SIDDHARTHA is set in the India of 25 centuries ago, but it has the contemporary familiarity of a quickie weekend at Esalen. Hermann Hesse's novel has been adapted with stuporous devotion by Conrad Rooks, who in 1967 unleashed Chappaqua, a shambling phantasmagoria of the hallucinatory world of alcoholism and drug addiction. His skills have become no sharper in the intervening years. Siddhartha (Shashi Kapoor), as any campus sophomore would know, spends the better part of his lifetime beating the bushes in search of spiritual insight and fulfillment. It is a hard job achieving nirvana, and seems to require...
Also selected were: John Q. Johnson of Leverett House and Chappaqua, N.Y.: Michael J. Kaplan of Mather House and Northport, N.Y.; R. Michael Kaus of Adams House and Beverly Hills, Calif.; David C. Kibbe of Eliot House and Hudson, Ohio; Hillel J. Kieval of Peabody Terrace and Auburndale; David A. Koplow of Winthrop House and Sioux Falls, S.D.; William H. Lohman of Quincy House and Providence, R.I.; Wayne H. McGuire of Dudley House and Somerville; and, Jerry A. Menikoff of Dunster House and Massapeque Park...
Died. Charles ("Chick") Ireland, 51, president since last October of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.; of an apparent heart attack; in Chappaqua, N.Y. Amiable but harddriving, Ireland directed the Alleghany Corp.'s long and complicated proxy battles of the '50s. In 1968, he joined ITT, where he oversaw the operation of Avis, Sheraton hotels and several of the conglomerate's other subsidiaries. Ireland professed to know little about broadcasting, but CBS hired him last year to bring fresh talent to the network's top echelon in a period of sagging revenues...