Word: brotherhood
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...Those who mistrust the young think of it as the Jolly Roger, an ensign under which all sorts of piratical and subversive acts of depredation may be committed. Those who esteem the young see their symbolic banner as an emblem revitalizing a tired phrase and an undying hope: the brotherhood of man. If the phrase means anything, it must mean that man's vision should extend to the horizon of his being and not be blinkered by some arbitrary national line squiggled on a map. This is the shaping theme of an attractive and exuberant free-form musical from...
...attention. In one class a favorite teacher of Anthony's reads her class a letter he had written "just a few weeks before he died, imagine." It is full of facts about the war, of gripes about the food and the heat, of praise of his buddies and their brotherhood in the face of the enemy. It also tells about Anthony's feelings about the war. He has a job to do, the letter says, and he will do it, because that is what Mrs. Carpenter taught him. The letter goes on to say, almost plaintively, that he cannot understand...
Director Harold Scott's conception of Godot is fuzzy at best. He appears to believe that the play is about the brotherhood of man, and the production has been so ethnicized that it makes Beckett into a kind of emcee for United Nations Day. Leland Moss' Estragon seems to have been imported from a Catskills road company of Fiddler on the Roof. His gestures might have been modelled on Menasha Skulnik's, his lines threaten to slip into Yiddish, and the "nu's" and the "oy's" and the Diaspora world-weariness almost crown Beckett the prince of pushcart playwrights...
...anxieties of ambiguity. And what can Let It Be possibly have to do with Waiting for Godot? The voice of that song is, at the very least, peaceful, and McCartney's crystal words of wisdom are light years from Beckett's terrifying existential despair. Godot isn't about the brotherhood of man; it's about the spirtual death of mankind...
...confused with the brass bracelets worn by some Viet Nam veterans. These are handed out by Montagnard tribesmen to visitors who have joined them on patrols, but carry no medical magic and are meant to symbolize blood brotherhood...