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...Museum." A professional company at the Loeb, he feels, not only would be able to use the mainstage to better advantage-but also could begin to provide some adequate training models for students. Harvard's cherished opinion of itself as something more than a trade school struck him as absurd; he asked if anyone noticed the inconsistency of Carpenter Center with that ideal...
...common. They are short. They reflect American life. An American Note may simply relate a funny or poignant incident, but it usually has some special significance. It may be a minor vignette or a brief comment on a major event; it may underscore the important or puncture the absurd. "The ideal item," says Nation Editor Jason McManus, "contains a moral, or a quality of fable, or the nucleus of some atom of the national mood...
Auntie Mame would feel like a stranger in her creator's Paradise, Patrick Dennis' latest novel. The charisma, cheerful talent and canny sense of the absurd that brought fame to Mame are conspicuously absent this time. Too bad, because Dennis has invented a situation with comic possibilities. At the start of the tourist season an earthquake transforms an Acapulco resort into an island rocked by storms. Both amenities and necessities swiftly disappear. As Dennis' caricatures try to cope with life in the raw, long-distance television cameras grind away from the shore, picking up every grisly move...
...when his countrymen increasingly fell under the spell of fascism. The play is certainly a tract against conformist and the inhumanity it produces, but it goes far deeper than simple propaganda. If the various townspeople who rationalize and stumble their way into the rhino herd are absurd, Ionesco says, so is Berenger, the one man who holds out. His defiant profession of faith in humanity is farcical rather than heroic, showing that individuality in an indifferent universe can be as futile as conformity. At one point, Berenger even longs for the hard green armor of the beasts...
...occasion to deny charges in a recent issue of the Black Panther that her husband was holding her prisoner after having murdered her lover, Clinton Smith. Cleaver told TIME Correspondent Bill Marmon by telephone from Algiers: "I wouldn't bother to deny that stuff. It's absurd." Smith's present whereabouts are unknown...