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...estate and compensated his wife, to whom some of the land originally belonged, with a bottle of perfume. Straightforward, witty and courteous, Segni is more at home in the classroom or the law court than in the back rooms of Italian politics. He is not a robust man, yet, in the drawn-out bargaining and bickering process that constitutes Cabinetmaking in Italy, he surprised his countrymen by his persistence, toughness and adroitness...
...Woodford outside London, a familiar old party arrived at the vote-counting, slightly teary-eyed and fumbling for a misplaced cigar, to learn that his plurality, while down almost 3,000 from 1951, was still a robust 15,808. "We wish you a long and happy life," said his defeated Laborite opponent. "I've already had that," grunted So-year-old Sir Winston Churchill...
...Robust Experience. For artistic as well as economic reasons, it is high time, says Kerr, a playwright himself (Sing Out, Sweet Land!), that playwrights start to relearn what their audiences prefer: "No great play has ever come from what might be called a minority theater . . . The presence of the uncultivated mass ... is an indispensable prerequisite for drama of genuine stature ... At worst, the popular theater holds the fort; at best, it finds its way to Hamlet...
...lure back their audiences, says Kerr, modern playwrights must offer them once again "a robust and companionable outsized experience," full of sound, color, movement, conflict, and the "sort of magical speech" which can best be achieved in verse. ("Every major serious play-and the lion's share of the comedies-that we cling to out of the past are verse plays...
...Finn. Ironically, the Armory show also marked the end of Henri's overwhelming influence (although he lived until 1929). As a portraitist, Henri strove to catch "the living instant," and he often said his goal was "to paint the greatest portrait in the world in 30 minutes." His robust bravura can still hold the spectator's eye. But today Henri's surface effects seem thin and superficial, less revolutionary than mannered Manet...