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...required Kirby's Flying Circus (London), a Godzilla-ish sea monster, smoke generators, a wave-making machine, a mobile cloud-carriage and an expert ballet troupe--but the Boston Opera's unfathomable Sarah Caldwell managed to elevate Jean-Phillipe Rameau's mediocre first opera, Hippolyte et Aricie (1733), in its American premiere, to a delightful rococo Juliet of the Spirits...
...those students are actually liberated, why the fuss, the cheap publicity, the organizations, the gimmicky buttons? This can only encourage the frustrated unenlightened to strike back with more deadly and repulsive conventional morality. Nietzsche warns: "Beware when you fight a monster that you do not become a monster yourself." Now that you at Berkeley have got over being ashamed of your bodies, take a look at your minds...
Crocodiles & Bluebirds. To the trade, on the other hand, David Merrick is no mere figure of fun. He is a monster of rapacity, a genius of publicity, a wizard of organization who over the last decade has personified U.S. theater as no other man, not even Charles Frohman or Jake Shubert, has ever done before. In the 1965-66 season, his supremacy has been absolute. Out of 44 new shows presented on Broadway, Merrick produced only five. But of the season's dozen hits he came up with four: Marat/Sade, Inadmissible Evidence, Cactus Flower, Philadelphia, Here 1 Come...
...wrote 26 stormy love letters that appear for the first time in these volumes. Soon jilted, Lady Mary stayed on in Italy until, at 72, she announced: "I am dragging my ragged remnant of life to England." When she arrived, half of London turned out to inspect the legendary monster. Her vivacity was so great that nobody guessed she was dying of cancer. To Lady Mary herself, death was a matter of indifference. "I have lived long enough," she declared firmly. And she was off to catch the setting...
...nervously admits to his dying wife's doctor (played in an appropriately intolerable, stiffly self-righteous fashion by John Merivale) that as she approaches death from TB he loves her less, that her illness is simply getting on his nerves. He knows the doctor must think him a monster but, he says, rubbing his hands in agitation, and raising his voice in irritation, he just can't help...