Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clotel was the first Afro-American novel in which what we may call the "American contradiction" was first expressed through a literary character. More importantly, in this novel we saw the grandiloquent gesture vs. the monumental emptiness of America's action. Yet one had to wait until the end of...
William Dubin is such a man. A biographer, he has taken on a study of D.H. Lawrence and is having great difficulty fathoming the man. Lawrence's character is alien to Dubin, and the task becomes an uncomfortable wrestling match, paralleling Dubin's own struggles with his sexuality, his darker...
Throughout the first act, tight writing and capable acting hide the problems that became increasingly annoying as the show winds its way to its final burst of nervous optimism. Blocking problems, which seem minor at first, keep recurring. Too often what passes for choreography becomes simply two pairs facing each...
But more seriously, the second act, when the women reappear as 23-year-olds, suffers as Ravenal tries to force more deep meanings than the revue format can sustain. Throughout the first act each character never has to be an individual. But in the second act, each woman suffers a...
But for the most part the deep confessions--Reed's admission that swinging might not be all that it's cracked up to be, Rody's bizarre comments on her inability to make commitments--all ring false. When each character comes before us and claims that she has been totalled...