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Bertok Brecht was a magnificent failure. Better known in this country for his notions of what the theater should be than for his plays themselves, his plays, with the exception of The Threepenny Opera, are too rarely produced. We prefer arguing about Communism, the didactic theater, the epic theater, the A-effect, and the V-effect (alienation or Verfremdungseffekt, depending upon your degree of snobbery). As John Hancock's superb production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle demonstrated, Brecht was too much an artist to be seduced by his own theories. The stage of the Loeb Drama Center was from more...
With intricate legal overlapping, many companies and individuals were included in each of the seven critical cases. Several companies-including McGraw-Edison, Allis-Chalmers and Federal Pacific -have pleaded guilty in certain of the seven cases. Nevertheless, a few firms or individuals may yet prefer to plead not guilty and force a trial...
Medicine & Baptism. Riou's competitors are voodoo witch doctors, called bocors, whom some islanders still prefer. A few days ago, Riou barely saved an old man's life by stripping a voodoo bandage of rotten leaves from his dangerously infected foot and applying proper treatment. There are other superstitions. Once Riou asked a mother whether she had given her seriously sick baby medicine the hospital had provided. "No, Father," she replied. "Why not?" he asked. The cryptic reply: "He's not baptized yet." Haitian peasants consider a child before baptism only a brute animal on which medicines...
...when he was 24, he accompanied Tenor John Coates, became fascinated by the challenge of fitting music to text, and soon decided that accompanists "have an infinitely richer life than the soloist." Today he adds: "Even if I had the technique and virtuosity of Horowitz or Rubinstein, I would prefer to do what I am doing...
...than the Eisenhower Administration's. In the labor area, Kennedy has promised to pass a minimum-wage bill raising hourly wages to at least $1.25. Most businessmen believe that Kennedy, while promising to be beholden to neither labor nor business, will not openly antagonize the business community, will prefer to win its cooperation rather than fight it. Kennedy realizes that the welfare of U.S. business, with its decision-making and spending powers, is essential to the health of the economy that he has promised to revitalize...