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...ease and is touching and vulnerable in his desire to receive the blessing of love from his father's untender hand. A play that wears its heart on its sleeve and small muscle in its script has been given whatever discipline, order and form it has by Alan Schneider, currently the busiest and most versatile director both off-Broadway and on. Whether he groups his actors with a painter's eye or makes a scene spin like a boy's top, his direction is impeccable. The only flaws are in the play, which renders unto Freud...
Johnson leaped to victory in the broad and high jumps. His 5.9 time in the 45 yard high hurdles was tops for both teams. Sailing over the bar at 12-0. John Dorho took pole vault honors, as Jack Schneider captured the 55 yard dash...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Honoring Cellist Pablo Casals on his 91st birthday, "Casals at Marlboro" catches the master at last summer's Marlboro Festival in Vermont. Films of his performance, and talks with such colleagues as Pianist Rudolf Serkin and Violinists Alexander Schneider and Jaime Laredo...
...minutely supervised the spare, expressionistic sets designed by German-born Günther Schneider-Siemssen, a longtime Von Karajan protégé. The extraordinary lighting design, ranging for the most part from grey to basic black, was Von Karajan's own. The cast was handpicked, and the hand was his. He guided the Met's orchestra through what amounted to a graduate seminar on Wagnerian sonority, galvanizing that frequently scraggly ensemble into a pliant, rich tonal fabric...
...McCann agents of a murder ring, symbols of organized society, or instruments of fate? What torture do the pair inflict on Stanley? Rarely has Pinter left more to the playgoer's imagination. The American cast keeps its English accents tidy but not its performances, and Director Alan Schneider lets the first act drowse. Basically, the play lacks the athletic snap and resonance of The Caretaker's dialogue and the musky animal magnetism of The Homecoming family. But whether or not he baffles playgoers, Harold Pinter exerts a modish appeal for an age of jitters that likes its comedy...