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...astonishing to contemplate, but another extraordinary aspect of Holmes is that, along with his violin, he sounds a metaphysical chord. He and Professor Moriarty are Manichaean twins, representing the endless moral struggle between good and evil...
Feiffer: That's changed too. At the Boston tryout of "Little Murders," part of the play was offensive to many parts of the audience. There's a feeling that I struck some chord or other that disturbed them. There are particular scenes that bothered them. In one speech, for example (remember, this is a long time ago) the very word masturbation would drive six to ten people out of the theater. Or when Kenny picks up the gun, they sensed that something they didn't want to see was going to take place. But that's a long time...
...similar but less sweeping measure was narrowly defeated in 1970. But by playing on the deep resentment many Swiss feel toward migrant workers, who are blamed for everything from the housing shortage to overcrowded nurseries and schools, Oehen's "over-foreignization" campaign struck a surprisingly responsive chord. "They take our jobs, and they work too damn hard," declared a middle-aged lathe operator in Bern who vowed to vote for the constitutional amendment. "All they care about is putting in overtime to make more money. If you'd let them, they'd be working Sundays as well...
...feel guilty about their bodies and their desires and how they are taught to feel that friendships with other women are expendable if they interfere with male-female relationships. Women are shown as victims of physical and mental aggression by males in situations that often strike a responsive chord and recall similar episodes in one's own life. The final sketches of the play show women trying to change the power structure and create a more humane system in which power is shared...
Cohen said yesterday that he believed his remarks hit a responsive chord with the Japanese public and cited various letters to the editors of Japanese newspapers as proof of the attention his remarks drew to the possibility of corruption...