Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terrier mistook his pant leg for a hydrant: "I was nauseous, sick to my soul, I became aware . . . aware of the whole rotten senseless stinking deal." Mimed in outrageously funny fashion by Alan Arkin, Harry is so sick that he goes momentarily rigid with paralysis and then turns deaf, blind and mute. Milt prates of the good things in life, but he, too, is gnawed by despair. "I'm more in love today than on the day I married-but my wife won't give me a divorce." It occurs to Milt that Harry might find a meaning...
...power, pulpits and journals as instruments for influencing politics [Oct. 9]. This action appears even more ludicrous in view of the scandals that have been characteristic of the Johnson Administration. Why has there been no mass clerical denunciation of the Bobby Baker scandal? Certainly the respectable clergy cannot be blind to the lack of morality in high offices and widespread disregard of the law that are now so prevalent in our country...
...hitting speeches to Catholic educators, he derided "closed-system Thomists who still shadowbox the ghosts of the 13th century," insisted that new times demand a new approach to philosophical problems. Reasoned Kreyche: "St. Thomas himself, many of whose views were condemned after his death, would be appalled at the blind way we shamble in his huge footsteps. The magnificent company of non-Catholic thinkers-Spinoza, Kant, Kierkegaard, Sartre-are too often presented in our texts as straw men to be knocked down with a pat phrase and a smirk for the stupidity of those who don't agree with...
...prosaic fantasy-life: the play turns our to be a straightforward polemic against a gallery of standard evils--hatred, social injustice, fate, racial prejudice. Blackstone, a gentle Negro heavyweight, can't kick the habit of goodness in spite of the suffering whites inflict on his race. Tiger, the blind man who wishes he were "better dreamed," and Fancy Dan, an embittered ex-convict, take their knocks with less dignity. "A little love somewhere is better," counsels Saroyan; "too much hate melts the bones, makes me cry." His scandalized commentary serves passably as a vehicle for the dramatic skills of Hopson...
...play is densely overgrown with metaphors and allusions. Pinter cultivates a whole thicket of symbolic references to vision, light, and self-knowledge: Edward's eyes hurt; the matchseller seems blind; the day is the longest in the year; Edward prefers the darkness of the house to the sunlight; and so on. Trying to chart this jungle would be a presumptuous sort of auto-analysis from which I will excuse myself--anyone who sees A Slight Ache should read the play and attack it with his own interpretive machete. And that "any-one" should be everyone who appreciates soundly produced modern...