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Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero, produced by Black CAST and directed by Harold Scott '57, a professional brought in from the big time, is a charming, witty and thoroughly well-performed fable that would make Moliere smile. The rather abbreviated one-act play revolves around the activities of one Brother Jeroboam, a self-proclaimed prophet of the Lord and small-time religious hustler. Soyinka, a Yoruba playwright, novelist and poet who spent three years in a Nigerian prison for alleged subversion during the tragic Biafran civil war, puts broad satirical strokes and rapid-fire dialogue to clever...
...mavericks among us always have a way of standing out from the rest of the crowd. Whether we react with ridicule or quiet admiration, we can rarely ignore them. The story of Harold L. Humes Jr. '54 has all the features commonly associated with the life of a maverick, a man who insists on swimming upstream. He has unorthodox theories, an unusual physical appearance, and has often been the focus of sensational charges. But his case has failed to attract the kind of interest usually directed toward men of his temper. It is even more difficult to account...
Last week Defense Secretary Harold Brown confirmed what defense experts have long suspected: the Soviets have developed a "hunter-killer" satellite, straight from Star Wars, that can track down orbiting U.S. spacecraft - and wipe them out. Said Brown: "The Soviets have an operational capability" to destroy "some" American satellites and have thus raised at least the possibility of a Soviet-U.S. space war. Added Brown: "That is somewhat troublesome...
...Elisir d'Amore. Coming up are Jon Vickers in Britten's Peter Grimes and Frederica von Stade in The Barber of Seville. This November the Lyric will mount its first Die Meister singer. For opening night next year, Fox has even hired Broadway Director Harold Prince (A Little Night Music) to concoct a new sauce for that classic spaghetti western, Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West. To Carol Fox, the formula for aesthetic and commercial success is as simple as a C-major scale. Says she "All I want is the best." - William Bender
...their testimony, an array of uniformed officers and their civilian boss, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, made a strong case that continued U.S. use of the canal, and American defense of it, would be much better ensured if the treaties are accepted than if they are rejected. Contended General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: "United States military interests in the Panama Canal are in its use, not its ownership. Our capability to defend the Panama Canal will be enhanced through cooperation with the government of Panama...