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...integration of philosophy and play is attempted by setting up one person as the personification of an Idea. Alex Minotis, playing Domingo Alvero, is a South American dictator who exists on the belief that the robust man, the forceful man, can carry out his idea through totalitarian force. There are two other ideas involved in the play: first, that Alvero's is definitely wrong, that progress should be achieved by another process, and secondly, the present American ideal of democracy...
...from his seat at the piano. Nodding his big head, or gesturing slightly with a momentarily free hand to indicate the tempo, he kept superb command of the ensemble, while producing immaculate music from his own piano. Characteristically, it was Bach of uncommon serenity in the slow passages, of robust vigor in the strong ones. (Fischer on Bach: "Good phrasing, a moderate tempo and a clear head are the three requisites.") At the end of the third concert, the musicians joined in the applause, tapped their bows against their violins and cellos in compliment...
...took the Indians out a few times, but he soon learned that though they enjoyed meeting people, people did not always enjoy meeting them. If the Indians approved of someone they met, they would put an arm around his neck (much in the manner of Manhattan's robust Restaurateur Toots Shor greeting an Old Pal), and then just stand there, keeping the neck firmly clasped, for as long as half an hour. So for most of their stay, the Indians remained in the apartment. "We just looked at them," said Medeiros, "and they just looked...
...religious freedom by the Italian constitution, old Fascist police laws are often invoked locally to prevent them from opening churches. The Italian people, says Mackay, while not hostile to Protestants, are cynical about governmental suppression of them-"As in so many other parts of the world today, the old robust liberalism is dead." _ But Protestantism is not only holding its own in Italy, "its ranks swell with new adherents...
...Church came to Reno to teach Latin and Greek at the University of Nevada. The classics were all right in their way, but the young professor felt the need of something more robust. One winter, on a dare, he set out to climb the 10,800-ft. peak of Mt. Rose, 19 miles southwest of Reno. He returned from the mission safe & sound, but fascinated by the savagery of the storms and by the "complete purity of the world of snow...