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...cannot judge how well the play would act; it is a short one-acter and long portions are filled by two monologues. The prose is beautiful to read, though, full of salient images, like the long compounded string in the son's recited dream; it is also highly mellifluous, without sacirficing impact, as in the father's "Big fat black men of God or little black shriveled sacks with the calling still in their protruding bones"; and it achieves minor effects as perfectly as large ones, like the setting of the father's long monologue: "You know the church, Edward...
...Lesson is a real loser. Admittedly the repertory form limits expanse as well as expense, but a charcoal-black flap can make a pretty ugly stage. Still, everything in its place. The Lesson is a competent, funny production -- everything, in short, that its companion one-acter...
...senior economic policymakers waved the red flag - and thereby showed how both ered and uncertain even the healthiest of bulls can become. With some well-timed but somewhat ill-chosen words, William McChesney Martin Jr., pres tigious chairman of the Federal Reserve System, brought out the mercurial char acter of Wall Street psychology, which finds it hard to accept the idea of indefi nitely continuing good times, even when business is most loudly proclaiming its confidence...
...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Arthur Miller has expanded his famed 1955 one-acter about a longshoreman's fatal and incestuous jealousy into a powerful drama that approximates, even though it falls short of, the catharsis of Greek tragedy...
...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Arthur Miller has expanded his famed 1955 one-acter about a longshoreman's fatal and incestuous jealousy into a powerful drama that approximates, even though it falls short of the catharsis of Greek tragedy...