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...generous stirrings of heart or mind. He counts the world well lost for money. Skittering about like a drunken sandpiper, Hume Cronyn is a dizzy delight. His Harpagon is a sprite of the cashbox, an imp of interest rates, a tooth-clacking, raggedy-cloaked, stringy-haired, sciatica-plagued witch of usury. As a syrup-tongued matchmaker, Zoe Caldwell steals laughs from Cronyn, and is the yeasty comic find of the company. Obviously, the Guthrie troupe is off to a brave rather than a great start. If a Hamlet of this caliber were to open on Broadway, it would close...
...film is cute where the play was poetic, too often Director Joseph Strick permits his performers to natter what they are intended to intone. But moments of lurid lyricism survive, and vestiges of atavistic ritual. Genet is not, pace Sartre, a sick saint. He is a perfectly healthy witch doctor, and when he chooses he can cast a potent spell...
...connection with this, Sanford J. Ungar '66, chairman of the HCUA Dining Halls Committee plans to investigate the frequency with witch some of the less popular meals, such as veal and hash, are served. The committee will study the possibility of replacing some of these meals with more popular ones...
...grumbling got so loud that even President Tito admitted in a speech that "a real witch hunt was started against the alleged enrichment of artisans, and excessively high taxes were levied against them." He suggested the matter be attended to. Last week the Yugoslav Parliament was preparing to pass a new tax law that "will not discourage the development of crafts." The party's official mouthpiece, Belgrade's Daily Borba, offered a distinctly non-Marxian rationale for the retreat: "The law treats private craftsmen as an additional but significant economic branch which fits well in the system...
...Award commemorates George Burroughs 1640, the only Harvardman to be burned as a witch...