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...building itself." Despite cramped facilities and a woefully inadequate budget (?4 million a year), he has tried to put a greater variety of the museum's vast materials before the public. In one imaginative display he arranged finds from the museum's 1963-64 New Guinea expedition into an attractive mix of the utensils of everyday life with elaborate objets d'art. "We endeavor to give a complete picture of a culture-not only the people on top, but through everybody on down as well," he explains. Also successful was a centenary exhibition honoring Karl Marx...
What stimulates excitement and controversy about the Living Theater is that it uses audiences almost like guinea pigs, trying to incite them to active emotional responses rather than passive mental assent. Critics have called this assault on the senses "the drama of the anti-word" or "the theater of attrition." Dialogue and plot are reduced to a minimum and replaced by improvisation, ritual and a grotesquerie of violence and the macabre...
...WIZARD (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Andrew Duggan narrates "Untamed World," a documentary on the primitive peoples who still exist in far-off corners of the globe. Among them: the Eskimos in Northern Canada, the Pygmies in the Congo, natives of Melanesia and New Guinea, and the Indians of the Xingú River in Brazil...
...from official French control, and begun to woo the 150 subscribers in 60 countries that A.F.P. has since won. Marin, now 64, has expanded his team of correspondents and stringers by 100. They are free to enter and report from almost every nation in the world except Albania and Guinea...
...supremely organized tactician who enlisted as a 17-year-old private in the Spanish-American War and commanded every size military unit, from squad to army, in his rise to full general, capping his career with 15 amphibious landings that pushed the Japanese back across the Pacific from New Guinea to the Philippines; of pneumonia; in Valley Forge...