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In America, where the institution of having servants has never been as common as in France, the social criticism which drives the play has much less force. In the production that closed last weekend at the Adams Pool Theater, produced by Extension School drama students Les Welter and Barbara Matteau...
Forget about social history. Though any post-Marxist pedant can wring out the usual insights about patriarchy and property in 17th century Dutch bourgeois life, none of them touch on the peculiar magic of Vermeer's images. Like Piero della Francesca, Vermeer was a highly inexpressive artist. He didn't...
3 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The Ghost of Tom Joad (Columbia). Drained of the arena-rock testosterone and bourgeois guilt that have marred Springsteen's recent work, this serene album explores the lives of steelworkers, illegal immigrants and migrant farmers. The Boss is gone, and Bruce is back among the proletariat.
IN HIS FOURTH NOVEL Oscar Hijuelos, author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, has produced the sort of book that might offer William Bennett hope for America's cultural future. Mr. Ives' Christmas (HarperCollins; 248 pages; $23) is an homage to religious piety, unfailing modesty and moral rectitude...
ONE OF THE STRONG SUBSURface themes of Smilla's Sense of Snow, the fine 1993 thriller by Peter Hoeg, a Danish novelist then new to America, was a slyly expressed contempt for what the author saw as his country's bourgeois self-satisfaction. This much relished contempt and cheerfully malign...