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their unarticulated simple lust. --Dennis Brutus "A Simple Lust...
Twelve years after he was released from a South African prison and exiled from his country. Dennis Brutus, one of South Africa's leading poets, said last week his poems still reflect the same themes they did when he was at home, themes based on the struggle against apartheid...
...Brutus, who spoke Thursday in the Science Center at a conference on southern Africa, and Saturday addressed a gathering of black Harvard alumni, cannot return to South Africa because of his anti-apartheid activities...
...Besides, there is a sense in which an assassination is less of an affront to morality than a kidnaping. The great man is knifed. Revenge is accomplished or unholy ambition thwarted. This is only a rerun of Julius Caesar, without the blank verse. Long live, for a time, Brutus. With kidnaping, however, you have torment direct and referred−the waiting, the humiliation, the delivery of an earlobe, the blackmail that tempts us all to wish to compromise with justice and make a fool of the law. "Free those undoubted, or figurative, criminals or we kill this figurative, or undoubted...
...witness the Marc Antony of Austin Pendleton. He bird-chirps the resonant oratory, and his climactic moments consist of nasal sobs. He could no more move men to mass mutiny than he could leave a scuff mark on a molehill. Alone in this whole sorry mess, Holly Villaire, playing Brutus' wife Portia, rings true, displaying a loving care, loyalty and concern for her husband that no one has shown for the play...