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Last season, in Home, Storey made old age in a mental home his metaphor for the decline and fragmentation of empire. This season, in The Contractor, which recently concluded a U.S. première engagement at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater and is scheduled to open in San Francisco on March 14, Storey uses the raising and striking of a huge tent as the symbol of the rise and fall of national greatness. In a still larger sense, the tent is emblematic of the vanity of human wishes-in art, in politics, in science, in business, in love...
Tarantulas. The putting up and taking down of the tent is all that actually happens in The Contractor, but it is utterly fascinating. For one thing, it is an intricate, large-scale operation requiring precise teamwork from the cast. For another, it is one of those rare occasions where a man's work life is actually depicted on the stage. The stress, the satisfaction and the ultimate futility of a community of effort are all present...
...Nonviolent Direct Action Group (NDAG), will present an antiwar slide show today to the employees of a local defense contractor. The group also plans to picket and distribute leaflets in front of the company's offices...
Harbridge House, the defense contractor, is permitting NDAG to use its facilities for the slide show, Charles D. Baker, president of Harbridge House, said yesterday, "We'd be glad to give them the opportunity to express their views. However, we are surprised and angered by the NDAG's planned picketing and leafleting, and the wording of those leaflets...
Uncle Ted. Le Gastelois was right on both counts. Nine more attacks occurred after his flight, bringing the total to 21, on young boys as well as girls. Last week, after more than a decade of terror, a three-judge Jersey court convicted a St. Martin building contractor, Edward Paisnel, on 13 counts of assault, rape and sodomy in six of the attacks. His sentence has not yet been determined...