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There are a few plays which are so starkly conceived and finely wrought by the author that one expects them to burn star-like upon the stage with their own illumination, with little more help from their actors than a faithful rendition. Death of a Salesman is such a play. Arthur Miller has fashioned Willy Loman on paper at once so palpable and so evocative that he has a real presence in two dimensions even before he has been thrust into the third. Audiences do not come to a new production of Death in hopes of being shown an unsuspected...
...took literally: that all men must be equal before the law. When Warren died last week of heart disease at 83, the evidence was already in: during his 16 historic years as head of the Supreme Court (1953-69), he had joined the small company of men who wrought fundamental changes in U.S. society. He had more impact on his time-and on the future-than many Presidents...
...story on the various species of rock audiences did contain its modicum of truth. One thing your reviewer failed to note, however: some groups display a nearly schizophrenic change between concert, performance and album. The recent LPs of Hot Tuna and the Grateful Dead, for instance, have been finely wrought blends of virtuosity and lyricism...
Theater Two is previewing a "State's Version" of Sweet Eros, the controversial avant garde play which was busted several times for "open and gross lewdness," tonight and tomorrow at 8. What hath the state wrought...
...Holy Spirit' instead of 'Holy Ghost'? The first hamburger we ate on Friday? The first time we stood to receive Holy Communion?" Believing in an ecclesiastical domino theory, Mrs. Wegner and many like her find the beginnings of Catholic troubles in even the minor changes wrought by Vatican II. Now, faced with a world of rapid and bewildering change, shifting values and lost standards, they complain that neither their church nor their schools still teach the sound old traditions...