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The characters' presentation determines the effectiveness of Brecht's message, as assignment this production maintains overall. Ernest Kearns' Mr. Peachum has all the disgusting elements of the petit-bourgeois, and Kearns presents Peachum with a clear understanding of the action-provoking role. Because of the flatness with which Kearns delivers...
The problem, all agree, is the Box, and Wolfe seeks out the origins of the architecture we love to hate. In the world of modern architecture, all roads lead to the Bauhaus, that post-World War I citadel of artistic in Germany. There, under the leadership of the "Silver Prince...
Certain American neighborhoods once possessed a similar palpable soul, the neighborhood being the urban apartment dweller's substitute for an ancestral house and grounds. In a sense, it is the soul that Americans yearn after when they think of houses. After an earthquake or tornado, the news always lists...
The charges ring disturbingly of the past: "Brazenly opposing the party's leadership, deviating from the orbit of socialism, desiring and envying the decadent, bourgeois way of life in the West." These and similar superheated phrases appearing in the Chinese press these days recall the years when the late...
Where was the eternal India of the Upanishads in the midst of the poverty of the body and spirit that existed side by side in the city? Was the tranquility and contentment of a purely Indian civilization to be found only in the rarefied precincts of the upper Himalayas, where...