Word: conquere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there's anything worse than a girl who's a tease, it's a girl who's a tease, but hasn't got the goods to deliver. Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer fits very definitely into the latter category. In his attempt to salvage theatre from the sentimentality of his day, Goldsmith dipped enthusiastically into the grab bag of Restoration drama. Unfortunately, all his hand touched upon was an endless array of frenetic entrances and exits. Aside from a few minor characters, his players still must wander about with an air of frustrated gentility. All that excitement...
...Stoops to Conquer centers on Kate Hardcastle's (Susan Yakutis) attempts to convince her betrothed, Marlow (Andre Bishop), that he needn't stutter so before gentleladies, since he's so often displayed his knack with the wenches. In the process, Miss Yakutis makes a charming transition from country lady to lusty serving woman. Either way, she's a maid who's real talent lies in raising her eyebrows at just the right moment. Perhaps, she could instruct Mr. Etstein...
...pair of Pinter puzzlers that amuse as well as bemuse. The first playlet deals with a successful businessman whose system short-circuits when all the forces in his life-secretary, wife, children, parents-come together at an office gathering. In the second, two men and a girl try to conquer each other and their living space...
...morning in Liverpool, George, John, Paul and Ringo are approached by a troubled man in a canary-colored boat. His country, he announces, is in the hands of the Blue Meanies. The boys hop aboard and eventually arrive at Pepperland, where they conquer the villains-who look like angry Rorschach blots-with that worn weapon LOVE...
...Bonnie and Clyde, the woman takes bank robbery and murder in her stride while the man battles paralysis (this is not to say that Bonnie is crudely portrayed). Man must prove himself against the external and feminine. The hero of Malraux's La Voie Royale is driven to conquer nameless woman after nameless woman. The vision of writing that emerges from all this is somewhat masturbatory--the emphasis is not on understanding or even communication but on the need to dominate an outside implacability, like sleeping with a whore. Here again is Norman Mailer in Armies of the Night...