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...measure of great literature is its capacity to serve as a mirror, allowing each interpreter to see his own concerns reflected. By that standard, Rumanian Director Lucian Pintilie's vision of Tartuffe-a portrait of an absurdist, spy-flecked totalitarian state-is not only legitimate but a tribute to the hardihood of Moliere's 17th century satire of conformity and misplaced religious fervor. Pintilie's production at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis will not please purists: it is manic rather than mannered, it looks abstract and austere rather than luxuriously "in period," and it ingeniously takes liberties...
Even while he researched solutions to the problems confronting the Philippines, he tired to avoid the political limelight. "He understood the meaning of a university," said Lucian Pye, director of the international fellows program at MIT. "He did not use [his academic position] to denounce the government...
...intriguing nonetheless. The story began a year ago with an unexpected exit at the Coca-Cola Co., the world's largest soft drink maker (1979 sales: nearly $5 billion). Though he was five years away from retirement age, the company's popular president J. Lucian Smith abruptly quit. A genial Mississippian who died in July at 61 from a heart attack, Smith had reportedly told friends that his job "just wasn't fun any more." Some insiders said that he was forced out as a result of a personality conflict with the firm's aloof chairman...
DRESS GRAY by Lucian K. Truscott IV Doubleday; 489 pages...
...Lucian K. Truscott IV also bears a refulgent military name. His grandfather, who affected pink riding breeches and a scarf of white parachute silk for combat wear, was a World War II general described as a fighter who "out-Pattoned Patton." Author Truscott's father is also a career military man, a West Pointer. Truscott IV, 31, has found a complicated way to deal with the family tradition. He graduated from the Point with a resolutely undistinguished record in 1969, then resigned his commission 13 months later in a row with his superiors. Truscott became a journalist-largely...