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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After depicting Sand as a feminist, Barry seems to change his mind and say she was not. The ambivalence was Sand's as well. Although she lived her life as a free, relatively "liberated" woman, and although feminist themes appear throughout her writing, she had few female friends and repeatedly refused to identify herself with, or participate in the efforts of the French feminist activists of her day, preferring to devote herself to other political causes. She was "less interested in promoting women's rights than humanities, believing mankind's necessarily preceded women's," Barry writes. Sand herself wrote, "Women...
...Whirligogs," an early work, exhibits the same concerns. Lubovitch, exploring the ways shape and emotional suggestion interrelate, relies on representational gesture just verging on the abstract. Accompanied by Berio's voice collage "Sinfonia," black-hooded dancers appear, then a man and woman in bared dress. The hooded dancers return unmasked, later reappearing disguised, only to toss their masks defiantly to the side, and then again appear as dark spirits surrounding and overwhelming the lovers. Lubovitch uses his costume flexibly, allowing the masks to suggest rather than to define possibilities. He realizes the unanticipated. As a voice in flat monotone recites...
...open at 7:30 every Friday and Saturday night. Music begins at 8 and lasts through seven-count-'em-seven sets until midnight or 1 am, no admission or cover charge. Musicians, mostly locals chosen by audition, are unpaid. Folk and blues styles predominate, but jazz and classical sometimes appear. Coffee, cider and soft drinks free! No booze...
...Times according to the category of advertising that surrounds it, a distention sets in. In the new sections are a number of useful things, including good theater criticism (Walter Kerr), tart restaurant judgments (Mimi Sheraton) and personal health advice (Jane E. Brody). But assorted critics and writers who also appear Sundays turn up again during the week with nothing special to say, and their words do run on. Enough in the sections demands attention, however, and the poor old conscientious reader has more to get through...
Such roots and obligations appear to have given the author a sensible attitude toward her work. She has avoided the dangers of early acclaim that might have thrust her into the footsteps of such belles of Southern lettres as Flannery O'Conner and Eudora Welty. Instead, Grau has usually played to her strength - a cautious application of talent to the Southern traditions and people she knows best...