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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Libidinous Filth. Out of their locker-room context, where hidden anxieties and hostilities trip the giggle reflex, the jokes are not at all funny. Even to Legman they are shocking. "The book is full of material so disgusting that it will make any decent, clean, healthy person want to throw up," he declares. Why then did he spend 41 years collecting and writing the text that accompanies these Augean sweepings of the human psyche? Legman tells us that he began his harvest as a teen-ager in Scranton, Pa., where he was born in 1918. "I got myself...
...seems to have been the creation of an image, Gerald Ford as a decisive president. William Colby was clearly on the outs, Church committee revelations and good investigative journalism having dealt a virtual death blow to his credibility and that of the entire CIA. Replacing him now, in the context of other changes, merely served to reinforce the decisiveness image. And naming George Bush his successor is of course an appeal to the mainstream and conservative factions of the Republican Party, since Bush is a recognized party loyalist and former national chairman...
...Paravicini and the pathetic would-be architect Christopher Wren emerge in this production as similarly successful comic types. Sometimes laughter intrudes where it shouldn't; for example, Wren's paranoid outburst in the second act ("You're all against me, everyone's always been against me"), is in context far more amusing than pitiable...
...offense is either intended or done by Harvard's support of Memorial Church in the context of the universalistic-thrusted Harvard of today, any more than it is an offense by the Notre Dame of today to sustain Catholic edifices and forms. Nor is the acceptance of this by non-Christians (indeed even non-high status Protestants like Jehovah Witnesses, Baptists, Mormons) at Harvard a denial of the value of their particularlism or ethnicity. It is merely a facet of the forever ambiguous status of people called Americans. Mormons at Harvard dealt with this status ambiguity in a good American...
...book, Arnold Schoenberg, Charles Rosen skillfully refutes these arguments. First, he places atonality and serialism in the context of the anti-naturalist tendencies which pervaded all the arts during the early part of the century. In the visual arts, the cubists and the Expressionists took bold steps toward the liberation of painting from the constraints of perspective and the desire to reproduce nature on canvas. In literature there was a similar movement away from naturalistic fiction to more introspective and fragmented modes. Composers were also motivated by this desire to free their art from natural as well as conventional constraints...