Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THEATER COMPANY OF BOSTON, University of Rhode Island, Kingston. Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King, an absurd drama about death, July 18-21 and July 25-28; Arthur Miller's autobiographical After the Fall, Aug. 1-4 and 8-11; a play by Günter Grass, The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising...
...Green Berets-Hollywood's first motion picture on the Viet Nam war-has been packing them in at theaters all across the U.S. This week the movie will open in Saigon, where, presumably, members of the Special Forces will get the chance to compare Wayne's absurd and blundering epic (TIME, June 21) with the way it really...
...ought to write for young people, and fashioned his Androcles as "a fable for children." The play was denounced by the critics and the religious press, who were outraged by someone's writing a funny play about religion. But Shaw claimed the work was not a comedy--an absurd assertion. It is a fable; it is a fantasy; and it is just as surely a comedy. Yet, like all the best comedy, it has a serious core. And although the play was aimed at children--and with unerring skill, it should be stated--he could not, being Shaw, avoid infusing...
...THEATER OF THE ABSURD. A beautiful girl gets into the back seat of a Rolls-Royce,takes off her clothes and climbs into a bathtub brimming with Calgon bath oil. The Dash soap man butts into conversations and flings laundry at innocent people. "Louise Hexter," he commands, "start wearing cleaner blouses!" The shaming, the touch of half-suppressed hysteria, is unsettling. Another instance of the absurd involves the flamenco dancer who stomps the living daylights out of a Bic ballpoint pen that has been attached to his heel. Here the effect is different. One remembers all the other similar nonsense...
Perhaps the most absurd criticism comes from a Boston psychiatry professor, Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, who with utter seriousness takes Styron to task for referring to Nat Turner by his first name. "Is this familiarity by the author part of intuitive white condescension and adherence to Southern racial etiquette? Is this reference and the entire book an unconscious attempt to keep Nat Turner 'in his place'? Would the novelist expect Nat Turner to address him as 'Mr. Styron'? Perhaps no one can ever know the answers to these questions...