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Retired Harvard Professor Edwin O. Reischauer, a renowned East Asian scholar who served as U.S. ambassador to Japan from 1961 to 1966, died on Sept. 1 in La Jolla, California...
...CHILDREN! MY AFRICA! South Africa's laureate of liberal anguish, Athol Fugard, staged the La Jolla Playhouse's production, near San Diego, of this harrowing play about the breakdown of civility and of the possibility for compromise in his native land. As always with Fugard, the language is poetic, the vision inspiring and the truth unflinchingly confronted...
...will receive this interest benefit is Dr. Michael Millbern, 42, chief of anesthesiology at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, Calif. He reported last week to Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego for 90 days of duty, during which he will see little of his wife Dotti, 41, a nonpracticing registered nurse and member of the Naval Hospital Reserves, unit 519. She has been summoned to duty at Oakland Naval Hospital, 490 miles away. Dr. Millbern's mother is flying from Florida to care for the Millberns' children, a daughter, 12, and a son, 9. The Millberns' combined military...
LIFE DURING WARTIME. A stern 16th century John Calvin provides a running commentary in Keith Reddin's wacky melodrama-cum-farce about home-security salesmen who double as burglars. At San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse...
Reddin's play, at the La Jolla Playhouse, is much the more complicated of the two -- and certainly the wackier. Instead of a naturalistic kitchen-sink drama, this is an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink melodrama-cum-farce, featuring fantasy sequences, flashbacks, ghosts, tall tales, quoted swatches of e.e. cummings verse and repeated incursions into a contemporary setting by a bearded and costumed Calvin. He recites his writings on predestination and free will and inveighs, sounding suspiciously like a televangelist, against the iniquities of Pop culture. The "war" of the title is not an event but a metaphor. It refers...