Word: blindingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tommy. This is the work that turns the crime of passion into an art form. This is the story of a young boy's lapse into a blind, deaf and dumb state, induced by witnessing his father's murder. This is the story of a boy who suffers repeated assault to emerge as pinball champion, guru, and finally, a victim of his own followers' violence. This is the show that almost appeared in Dudley House. However, a Master's wrath (piqued by an oversize stage) forced a sudden relocation to the Currier fishbowl...
Similarly, the special effects, designed by Richard Green, seem promising, but ultimately become distractions and reduce the impact of some find performances. A film of abstract shapes, depicting the thoughts of the deaf, dumb, and blind Tommy ends up frying your eyeballs while conveying no impression of mental activity by any actor on stage at the time. The electronic music heralding Tommy's return to awareness competes with a band more than capable of communicating the power of the moment...
...hard to figure out where the cast of Tommy left their show. As we go to press, the place seems to be Currier House, where the show originated. The production, based on the opera by Peter Townsend of The Who, is about a youth who goes deaf, dumb, and blind after witnessing his mother's infidelity; eventually he finds his callin as a pinball player extrordinaire. It's all laden with heavy Christ symbolism...
AFTER 1969 the choices were never so easy. Sure, there was a period of blind backlash in the mid-'70s when a clear career and a six of beer were enough, when students consciously avoided activism and experimentation that could mess them up, the way acid or cops or just rage had messed up their older brothers or sisters or friends. But the Strike and the general revolt against rules of the late '60s have, ten years later, left a conspicuous legacy: increased personal freedom, skepticism about the University's idea that it can stand aloof from the world...
...link is between the fight against racism at Harvard University and racism in South Africa, "the statement said, adding. "It makes little sense to fight against racism three thousand miles away and be blind to it here...