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PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Irish Playwright Brian Friel, knowing that every man is his own toughest critic and most devoted fan, uses two actors to play the inner and outer selves of a youth torn between nostalgia and expectation on the eve of his departure for America. The device is stunning and absorbing...
Situated at the crossroads of Occident and Orient, frequently buffeted by the cross winds of Arab nationalism and Moslem dogmatism, A.U.B. has from its beginning been torn by controversy. As early as 1882, 43 years before the Scopes trial in the U.S., A.U.B. Professor Edwin R. Lewis endorsed Darwin's evolution theories in a commencement speech and was forced to resign in the ensuing furor. Striking students clashed with police in 1952, when A.U.B. banned pro-Arab politicking on campus, then disbanded the student government. Last spring the ultrasensitive government of Lebanon, serving a population half Moslem and half...
...Governor Brown. Though he is lagging behind in the polls (as he was against Knowland in 1958 and Nixon in 1962), they consider him a sure winner. It is a pleasure to be able to report at least one event of heart-warming familiarity in an otherwise war-torn political year...
...topic, however unpopular. Then he spelled out the rules clearly-and insisted that they be followed. He urged Oakland city officials to issue parade permits to students demonstrating against the Viet Nam war; but after the protesters erected a sign board larger than the rules permitted, he ordered it torn down. Similarly, Communist Bettina Aptheker, an F.S.M. leader, and two Vietnik friends last February held two rallies in a week on Sproul Hall steps instead of the regulation one-and then were suspended from leading student activities. After Heyns expelled one girl who objected to the suspension, Bettina...
...studied various plants under a microscope, then conjured a shadowy, organic world streaked with veins like a bloodshot eyeball. Into this membranous setting, Tancredi is symbolically born, wobbling to life to face his first crisis. It comes in the form of two female images representing sacred and profane love. Torn between the two, he suffers a series of hallucinations and his second personality emerges. This leads to a violent, schizophrenic pas de quatre, and ultimately Tancredi No. 1 and Tancredi No. 2 are reduced to zero-death...