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...would like to reduce politics to tidy simplicities, it might be tempting to equate Lebanon's Christians with the West and its Moslems with Nasser and to conclude that the West must throw its weight on the side of Christian dominance. But forcing nations to choose between two stark alternatives-whether the West v. Russia...
...performed last week, it opened with a stark roll of drums followed by a saxophone drag that sent a line of twelve kids snaking around the stage and into a shoulder-shrugging, foot-dragging pantomime of exaggerated futility known as "The Slop." Deadpanned, stony-eyed, the dancers stalked the stage in chilling isolation, occasionally made wary, shoulder-grazing efforts to come together, then drifted off again into the kind of cool depths no adult can plumb. The audience sat solemn-faced, but greeted the final curtain with a roar of applause...
...Conceived in Sin." The result was an impressive argument for live TV drama. Seldom has so much TV wallop been packed into an hour as in Director Lumet's handling of the fall of Governor Willie Stark, ruggedly played by granite-faced, gravel-voiced Neville Brand, 37, a relative unknown until his Part 1 performance a fortnight ago. Though the limitation of time forced the play to move so swiftly that complexities of Willie's evil drive for self-esteem were lost, it surged with the brutal power of Willie's premise: "Man is conceived...
...bulldog of a man who hardly minds biting the hand that hesitates to feed him. At every chance, he sneers at the "ocean of mediocrity" brought on by "panic buying" of quiz games and westerns. He insists that advertisers are deluded, says that viewers "are staring in stark disbelief and disinterest, and I hazard the guess that their pocketbooks are zipped...
Sadhu is the Sanskrit word for "straight," and the straight-living, ascetic sadhus of India were once the bearers of Hindu holiness. Robed in saffron or stark naked, smeared with ashes or painted vermilion, shaven bald or mat-haired, they wandered through the world with their begging bowls, dispensing sacred teaching, sage advice and examples of the unworldly life. Inevitably another breed of sadhu arose that was anything but straight. Trading on the enormous prestige of the holy men, these daubed wanderers move from village to village dispensing magic charms and quack cure-alls and mulcting the credulous peasants. Today...