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...MANY MORE, an original verse romance running at Dunster House this weekend, is a play that prances back and forth, postures cunningly and burbles clever nonsense. It also sends the analytical mind into spasms...
...else the imitation becomes excruciating. The problem can be handled in several ways. Sometimes it's the experience itself that is in some important way interesting, and the artfulness with which it is recorded becomes secondary (Lady Bird Johnson's White House Diary ); sometimes that relation is inverted, and clever treatment makes dull material zippy ( Cleo from 5 to 7. Warhol's novel-transcription a); sometimes neither event nor method is engaging, and the dismal result is a CBS Miss America pageant, or Windsong...
...Beckett can be, and frequently is, a crashing bore. His world-renowned play Waiting tor Godot has been called a masterpiece so repeatedly that any revival of it seems to come gift-wrapped in its exalted reputation. In the canon of dramatic literature, Godot is an original stunt, a clever game, but no masterpiece. It has spoken to the inner spirit of an age that is antiheroic, narcissistic, self-pitying, and prone to believe that man's journey through life is a pointless shuttle from nothing to nowhere. When that view of man alters, the vogue for Beckett will...
...Marigolds success off-Broadway last season with a phenomenally entertaining tragi-comedy about two sisters, both spinster school teachers, at war with themselves and with their hard-boiled, married and successful sister Ceil. The combination at work in this production of superb acting, smooth, carefully thought-out direction, and clever, deftly turned dialogue makes the finished product well nigh irresistible. Estelle Parsons as Catherine Reardon shows the same majestic feel for her part as Julie Harris, playing her neurotic sister Anna, But, the stars in this case, while a delectable pleasure in themselves, are not deployed to compensate for flaws...
...HERE I AM, looking back over my life and times at Harvard, finding clever phrases that will somehow sum it all up. These marks I'm making on yellow paper will be sent out to the multitudes, some of whom (I am supposed to believe) will read them with something approximating interest, most of whom will ignore them, Some of them, I guess, really will use our product to wrap fish...