Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...birth that had actually happened long before. Yet the myth of Jagger's perversity is such that his music was believed to have turned the Hell's Angels into degenerate thugs-which, of course, they already were. There are some brutes whom not even Orpheus can charm, much less Marsyas. An essential aspect of the Orphic myth is that the sweet singer could attract the maenads to pursue him, but could not stop them from tearing him to gobbets; art, a magic key to the irrational, cannot always control the emotions it unlocks. Hence the idiocy...
What ABC and its affiliates seem to overlook is that not only Cavett and Nielsen but the whole ratings system is once again on trial. Cavett's literate charm could probably never match the broad appeal of Carson's accomplished vaudeville or woo away the diehard movie buffs. But should he have to? If he cannot, should the more than 3,200,-000 viewers who want his brand of intelligent alternative programming be summarily disfranchised...
...apparently, could do little but laugh. They had nothing but sex to object to since the only difference between Macunaima and the capitalist villain Venceslau is that the villain has all money can buy and wants more; while Macunaima has no money but does possess all that villain wants; charm, good looks, and the girls to prove...
...than the subject of the comedy. Well-played farce ought to exaggerate normal human foibles, arousing the sympathy of the audience. This production tends to pervert the characters' behavior in form as well as degree. While some of the straightforward humor of the farce remains intact, much of its charm is swallowed up in the overdone quaintness of the show...
...such circumstances, and with such a play, I still expect more from performers than what the Harvard Yard Palyers give out. Bernard Holmberg's Andy is not natively charming or self-aware enough to express put-on charm, coming off more as a preppie make-out artist, though the essential sanity of his role makes Holmberg look good against the other two nincompoops. Stephen Benson's Norman isn't comically awkward, just awkward; to be interested in him at all as a character we'd have to see his writing, and Benson can't move well enough to compensate...