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Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill. Time has added a comic flavor to this 4½-hour Freudian opus that the somber-spirited playwright never never intended. However, O'Neill's innate theater sense saves all but the silliest lines, and the playing of effulgent Geraldine Page and her Actors Studio cohorts is a delight to behold...
...Monday night Ursula Oppens '65 and Geoffrey T. Hellman '65 will take part in a demonstration class taught by pianist Leonard Shure. Afterwards, Shure, who has performed with major orchestras including the Boston Symphony, will play Beethoven's Sonata Opus...
...magnum opus of The Jacob's Ladder is "During the Eichman Trial." Its 165 lines view the tragedy of Eichman's life from several perspectives, all of which lead the reader ineluctably to the same realization...
...over to Bonn, Weston put his case to Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. "You need a man like me,'' Weston told him. "I'm a specialist in keeping down the cost of living." Erhard gave Weston the go-ahead-and a signed copy of the latest Erhard opus, Prosperity Through Competition. Within two years, Weston had opened 103 supermarkets in Germany...
...Scriptwriter John Elliot and Mathematician Fred Hoyle. 46. Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge and a leading proponent of the theory of the expanding universe. Hoyle finds that writing science fiction (Ossian's Ride, The Black Cloud) is a "very useful relaxation" from work on his 15-year opus on astrophysics. Readers may find both interesting and irritating some Hoylean attitudes toward the U.S. role in the West: in debates with the U.S. commanding general in Britain, his British opponents give shrugs of "sophisticated impatience," and feel the frustrations of Greeks arguing with a Roman. Says one Cabinet minister...