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...greater than the Iron Curtain today. That has already gone." The former Archduke believes that Britain will be "a tremendous new impulse." Beyond that, he says, what is really needed are some "jolts to move this continent along," such as the removal of the American military shield. "It seems absurd to have 220 million Americans defending 280 million Europeans." But Levi argues that U.S. withdrawal would invite a dramatic increase in the Soviet role in Europe...
...measled with portentous dots, might write) the gaudy style is grounded in intelligence, and it fits the character and the times. Raleigh, the last Elizabethan, had swagger and intelligence in excess. That being so, it was wise of the author to be liberal; excess carefully spooned would be absurd...
...true that Taiwan is a dictatorship--an incredibly prosperous one. But its feeble attempts at repression seem absurd beside Mainland China's genocide, mass executions and theocratic thought control. As a believer in individualism and responsibility I find your ideas nauseating. Whoever wrote them should crawl back under his rock. Park Chamberlain...
Producing an Ionesco is usually a choice between doing it straight and emphasizing the naturalistic elements, or stripping down or beefing up the text and emphasizing the absurd. The Hub theatre in their production of The Bald Soprano choses naturalism, and proves quite effectively that the Absurd can be played like drawing room comedy...
...that the images are distorted, but they are real images nonetheless. The beauty of Ionesco is that through distortion of the images he is able to show the distortion of reality. The Hub production retains enough of the subtlety of Ionesco so that the reality is clear, but is absurd enough to make it funny. It's a nice blend...