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...nearly bust a gut, I laughed so loud. But Girl in a Hole is more than mere airy persiflage. It is also a subtle and penetrating exploration, a discerning probing of the dark places of psyche and soul. The ballet sequence in which Alice acts out her desire to axe her mother and annex her father, and the tense scene in which she is forced to reveal the real causes for her fascination with rabbits, are among the most pulse-racing moments in the history of the theatre. The scene, by contrast, where Alice wakes up to see the familiar...
...other faculty members praise Quaeritor's research techniques and admire his ability to fit in with the natives so well. One of his former students comments, "Quaeritor swings their kind of axe. It is almost uncanny. I went on an exhibition with him once to study embalming habits in a matriarchal inner-directed sub culture. But while I regard the Jivarro only as an embryonic society, he sees them as a peer group. Uncanny...
MacLeish has a universal axe to grind and he does it without the dogma or confusion which usually attend the dramatic genre. He retells the story of Job in contemporary setting and retells it in poetry. J.B. is a successful business man married to a pretty wife, father of four children and president of a bank, endowed with all the material blessings our time can bestow. And he is a "good and loyal servant" to the God who tempts him in response to the taunts of Satan. His children die by accident, war and murder; his home and his bank...
...When the axe of censorship falls upon a college campus, it generally deals the deathblow to a vital means of free expression. Student opinion, though aroused, is often helpless in the face of absolute University rule, and a crusade for academic freedom tends to be waged within the confines of a paper...
...enough. The Department submitted a projected 1958-59 budget requesting $120,000 more than the total appropriation for last year. The administration, however, decided that only a raise of $20,000 was feasible. The Athletic Department was forced to make economics somewhere; and, as it worked out, the axe fell most heavily on lacrosse and golf...