RANDOM NOTES ON THIS AND THAT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68B00432R000500020021-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: May 3, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Random By RICHARD
WATTS JR
Notes on this and. that'
Neither of last week's openings, both off-Broadway
presentations, served greatly to advance the state of the
drama . . . While ='Thp World of Gunter Grass" was vir-
tuatlly non-existent theatrically, it did provide some pro-
vocative, perverse and disturbing insights into the original
n., kd and bizarre. Imagination^
of Germany's most impressive arrogance . of power" and "war
postwar novelist ... As it turned fever" . It is, of course, a
out, "Bohikee Creek" was act- matter of conjecture, but I won-
iual'ly.not a play but a quartet der if Indonesia would have be-
of mood sketches about life In come so bold toward Peking if
a small Negro community in the we had fled from Southeast
back waters of South Carolina Asia.
All four Interludes seemed
plain and clear, but I'rn still It Is evident. that Indira Gan-
luncertain of what took place dhi is having her troubles in In-
Ibehind a wharf in the final one. d.ia, but she can at least be con.
~" gratulated on having the urn
Pi iateyKr_.else, N, 0 New York pleasant Krishna Menon turn
(Times series on CI demon- against her . . . The apparently
str