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...standing contention in the youth militant canon is that the Establishment elite support the war in Viet Nam for reasons of profit. That narrow notion has often been refuted by the stock market, which usually begins to rise when peace talk is in the air. Now it has been all the more firmly refuted by a survey conducted by Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research. In canvassing 456 of the nation's leaders, including 24 people with personal assets of more than $100 million and the chief executives of 96 major corporations, the study found...
Kahn cut quite a bit of text in Caesar. Although Antony is one of the longer plays in the canon, Kahn has made only a handful of tiny snips. He is to be commended for keeping the text almost intact, but censured at the same time for allowing so many scenes to drag. The result is a performance that, with one 15-minute intermission, runs to three and a half hours...
...Speed is our god, a new canon of beauty," wrote the Italian Futurist Filippo Marinetti in 1909. "A roaring motorcar, which runs like a machine gun, is more beautiful than the Winged Victory of Samothrace." Ever since then, the automobile has been present on the margins of Western art, though not, as the horse once was, at its center. There has never been a flow of car images to match the innumerable equestrian ones of the past, because the car is-as Marinetti implied-a work of art already, a mass-produced corporate sculpture, permeated with style. Logically, then...
...general skepticism has its limits. A dominant 75% of the voters still believe in a venerable American canon. They agree that "it is still possible to get ahead if you are willing to work hard and stick with...
...over which they confess their hidden better selves. These confessional arias are what they have always been in Williams, eloquent trib utes to the English tongue and moving explorations of the human spirit. This is not to say that Small Craft Warnings is on a par with the durable canon of his finest plays. Here he reminds us of the size and scope of his genius, but dis plays it diminuendo. Call this then a five-finger exercise from the man who is the greatest living playwright in the Western world...