Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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This combination of events in Indochina posed a problem for the President as he worked over a decision on stage four of troop reductions in South Viet Nam. The last of the 50,000 troops of stage three are due out by April 15. That withdrawal will bring to 110,000 the total reduction of U.S. troops. So far, the pullbacks have not seriously , hurt U.S. combat effectiveness. But if Nixon goes ahead with stage four, some at the Pentagon argue, vital muscle may be cut too soon...
...that reason, the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, General Creighton Abrams, has asked that the stage-four reduction be postponed a month or two. Failing that, Abrams wants a cut that will total fewer than 50,000 men. Besides having to cope with the Cambodian uncertainties, Abrams is thin on the ground in the northernmost sector of South Viet Nam and disturbed by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong infiltration from across the border in Cambodia. Even if the President sets the figure at 50,000 or more, he can ease the blow by announcing that number but delaying actual...
...same general vein but extremely successful were the grotesque dances of Sartre's tragic chorus of "flies." Black costumes and subtle choreography by Wakeen Ray-Riv made the eight dancers a malevolent presence on stage. Orestes' final exorcism of remorse-his cowing of the "flies" as the symbol of fate-turned out to be a vivid pied-piper spectacle. As the "liberator" of Argos he had to put the rats (flies) on his own trail, burdening himself to unburden others...
...Pageant Players, a guerrilla theatre company that performs in the streets of New York City, will appeal to large part of the Harvard population regardless of their dramatic interest-for the troupe has pioneered a new mode of theatrical presentation-while those more closely attuned to the proscenium stage may enjoy the opportunity to hear playwrights Charles Gordone (No Place To Be Somebody), Arthur Kopit (Indians), and Lillian Hellman (Toys in the Attic), or Village Voice Drama Critic John Lahr discuss their work...
...short, the structure of the play glosses over the basic problem in the material-how to put egomania on the stage. Rolfe obviously could emphathize only with his own person or with projections of his personality (the young alter ego George Arthur Rose and the Bishop of Caerleon). The other characters in his fantasy pageant fit into stereotypes of melodrama. Tocqueville was not the last egotist to structure a world view on the assumption that all other human beings are coarse and mediocre. A dramatic rendering of Tocqueville's Recollections would have just as many pitfalls as Rolfe's Hadrian...