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...case-history plot has been dead for some time, but it was not formally buried until Murray Schisgal's Broadway comedy Luv kidded it into oblivion. And the protagonist of Saul Bellow's play, The Last Analysis, complains bitterly: "Doctor, I'm fed up with these boring figures in my unconscious. It's always Father, Mother. Or again, breast, castration, anxiety, fixation to the past. I am desperately bored with these things...
Marriage represents Director George Abbott's 107th show on Broadway, and before the season is out, Abbott, 79, will bring in No. 108, a bedroom comedy called Agatha Sue, I Love You. Shelley Winters will play in Under the Weather, a trilogy by Novelist Saul Bellow; Shelley will be disturbed in all three. Neil Simon (Odd Couple) will be on deck for the third straight season with The Star Spangled Girl, who is an ex-Olympic swimmer, while Comic Woody Allen has turned playwright with Don't Drink the Water, a comedy that laughs at the cold...
Race Against Time. The trapped middle-ager is introspective, resigned, and rebellious all at the same time. Modern literature and drama vividly depict his psychic desperation, from Bellow's Herzog to Miller's After the Fall, from Albee's Virginia Woolf to Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence, from the novels of John Marquand to the novels of John O'Hara. John Cheever, who writes of middle age with autumnal sadness, is its prose laureate. In O Youth and Beauty!, he tells of the ritual of Cash Bentley, a former track star turned 40 who, when...
...recent decades, talk of heroes seemed to carry overtones of tyranny, of Nazism's "supermen." In socialist mythology, the masses, not the individual, were regarded as heroic. In literature, the non-hero took over. He thrives in the U.S. today in the hands of such writers as Saul Bellow-whose Herzog has his great moment at the end of the book when he manages to summon enough strength to tell his cleaning woman to sweep the kitchen. Other literary "heroes" are fall guys, incipient madmen, badgered Everymen, victims. Their motto, says Daniel Aaron, professor of English at Smith, seems...
...elements; all is a shriek, a bellow...