Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Zahedi will be Washington's youngest ambassador. His father, General Fazlollah Zahedi, was the soldier who took over as Premier of Iran to restore order after weepy Mohammed Mossadegh's fall (the general is now Iran's roving ambassador to Western Europe). Son Ardashir earned an agricultural degree at Utah State University and, in the process, developed a great liking for the U.S. and U.S. ways. American officials gratefully remember him as the young engineer who worked tirelessly with them to make Point Four a success in Iran. The Shah is reportedly upset by increasing criticism...
...shattered land of Author Pick's grim novel is Germany during the fall and winter of 1637-38. The Thirty Years' War, which began two decades before, has long since degenerated from a conflict of comprehensible religious and political issues into a series of dogfights among irregular bands of mercenaries. Troops move about the country without pattern, leaving one hamlet in flames as they stalk out to feed on the next. It is the captain of such a rogues' company before whom Vogel, the author's protagonist, is dragged. With nothing more at stake than...
Having made his proposal, Vogel stands listening for the fall of his own head, but the captain agrees to the scheme. Vogel shores up his shaky position by offering to act as intermediary between the village peasants, who are hiding, and the soldiers. The peasants are oxen, the soldiers wolves; Author Pick obviously intends his hero's predicament to represent that of humanity caught in a world of mindless placidity and meaningless violence...
...Twisted Cross (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Rerun of a fine and frightening documentary on the rise and fall of Adolph Hitler...
Michael B. Ritchie '60, director of the play, said yesterday that "judging from the number of telegrams and offers of advance payments on options, there is a strong possibility that Kopit's play will open on Broadway next fall...