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...least five Harvard students were arrested during the Independence Day attempt by CORE to integrate an amusement park near Baltimore, Md. County police arrested 283 persons on charges of trespassing when they refused to leave the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park after police had read the state trespass law to them...
...gave me discipline." His range is so breathtaking that he can play either a grim soldier, as he did in Hell Is for Heroes, or a buoyantly impish soldier, as he does in the forthcoming Great Escape. Above all, he is to most other movie actors what a young oak is to a pile of fagots...
...Good Friday last week, a grotesque lump of a man emerged from the medieval Roman Catholic church in Corsica's olive-growing village of Sartène. Barefoot, masked in a blood-red hood with eye slits, the bent figure staggered under the weight of a massive oak cross. From his right ankle dragged a clanking, 31-lb. chain. And from under the hood came an anguished, muffled chant: "Perdonno, mio dio . . . Perdonno...
Sometimes he stays at home in Salzburg, playing in the drawing room of his elegant villa for the pleasure of the crowds that cluster outside the open French windows. Sometimes he packs his three oak organs on the back of a red and blue furniture van and takes his music on the road, like a traveling medicine show. Whichever, the driver of the truck and the owner of the villa bears one of the most celebrated names in European music: Von Karajan-Wolfgang von Karajan...
...Sandra Provost) made the most of describing her encounter with the devil. In Act III, Abigail Williams (Linda Phillips) made the court room scene, in which demons appeared to her, fun; a dull, dull text quashed her immediately. Given fatuous parts, many of the other singers (Mary Liverman, Ivan Oak, John Ring, Mary Lou Sullivan, and Robert Donaldson) strove mightily to overcome them. The set was imaginative and attractive: the skeleton of a frame house served a surprising variety of functions during the four, tedious acts. It was sad to see such rich resources used for such a poor work...