Word: brokenly
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...world's there and it's free to use, pun police notwithstanding: the current performance of Arthur Miller's Broken Glass at the Kirkland Junior Common Room can only be described as fragmented--but intriguingly so. The actors have realized their characters into living and breathing beings with mannerisms and mental meanderings only to be foiled by a pervasive lack of synchronicity that leaves every interaction a half-beat off. The result is something less than a couple of human tragedies and something more like an emotional detective story...
Part of Miller's recent work, Broken Glass treats the long-but feebly-standing marriage bewteen a Jewish couple in 1938 Brooklyn. The wife, Sylvia (Tegan Shohet '01), has psychosomatic paralysis of the legs after seeing daily newspaper photographs of Nazi humiliation of Jews. Husband Phillip (Jesse Kellerman '01) is an anxious, fundamentally confused individual submerged in a WASP business; he approaches any given situation with bullish anxiety...
...themes are simultaneously fundamental and extremely complex and manifold--the ancient theme of the cyclicality of nature and of female fertility is beaten into the viewer like a hammer. But at the same time the play presents us with a vision of one in whom that cycle is broken--"blocked up," as many of the play's characters repeat of Yerma--and asked to try to understand, with Yerma, the meaning of this arresting of the natural cycle in terms of "fate" and of morality...
...council is still broken and Reform Committee proposals are currently collecting dust. This is bad faith on the part of the council, which promised participants that the council would vote on their suggestions. The council ought once again to turn introspective in order to redeem itself. Taking a lead from the Reform Committee, we have some suggestions about where to start...
...that the Promise Keepers group, like every other large movement, contains its fair proportion of flakes and fakes [NATION, Oct. 6], but as a pastor, I have found that most men respond to its goals with genuine repentance accompanied by changed behavior, not just new resolutions that are easily broken. It is mystifying to me that some feminists cannot recognize a battle won, as their message has reached the hearts of so many men. Perhaps feminist philosophy is never to trust men. What do feminists want--subservient, feminized men? Is it possible they even want a world without...