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...book of poems,” Wallace Stevens once remarked, “is a damned serious affair.” These words are particularly apt when applied to a book of poems that, like Necessity, have a certain gestalt element and that lose something when separated from one another. To read Necessity, is to follow a coherent set of Sacks’ ruminations on a variety of subjects—to be a participant, if only fleetingly, in Sacks’ beautifully realized spiritual odyssey. By Stevens’ and, for that matter, just about any other reasonable metric...
...what it is: he writes about tough men and tough women with tough rows to hoe, characters just human enough to believe in and just godlike enough to fantasize about. And credit where credit is due, it works. Waller calls it "a book of endings," and that's apt. Roads has none of the pounding passion of Bridges but twice the pathos--it's a book about aging, a reprise in a minor key. Or put another way, it's less about the bridges, and more about the water under them...
...apt staging and choreography, like the costumes, are also key in communicating Patience’s humor. Bunthorne’s onstage frolicking, especially in his delightful Act II duet with Lady Jane, “So Go To Him And Say To Him,” provides the production with some of its greatest humor...
...rally came at a particularly apt time. Violence in the Middle East has erupted in recent weeks, with Israeli army occupation of Palestinian cities and a growing number of Palestinian suicide bombings...
...example is Julie L. Rattey ’02, who is so touching as Lavinia, that one wishes her hands and tongue might not have been removed and that she could remain to charm the audience with her abundant talent. Then again, performers without limbs or tongues seem an apt metaphor for this Titus—no matter how hard they try, the actors have been handicapped by the production surrounding them...