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To see Kean play King Lear, said Coleridge, "is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning." To see Alfred Drake, in his one lamentable lapse of the evening, act Othello is to read Shakespeare by the flash of a lightning bug. Drake is more than a star; he is a...
I appreciate deeply your story on the 3rd Armored's General Abrams [Oct. 13]. I had the privilege of being part of his personal tank crew as driver during World War II. If or whenever (I pray never) the Russians attack the general's sector in Germany, you...
Mosaic's fiction this time is pretty weak. "Adoshem," a short story by Leonard Tushnet, could have been very funny; part whimsy, part science fiction, it is the story of a Kabalist Rabbi in Brooklyn who, searching for God's name, plays around with the magic number e=mc squared...
The rain started at half-time, an increasingly hard rain mixed with a fine hail. But before the flood really broke at the beginning of the fourth quarter, lightning had struck twice more.
The horror of Electra is not mythic but domestic. In the rasping quarrels of Electra with her mother and sister, modern playgoers will find hints of those vicious family fights that occupy whole scenes of Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. The difference is that Sophocles'...