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...Faulkner's style intrudes: "Clarence carrying o'clock twelve." The more experimental parts of the book are far from perfect. At times there are too many lists of food and too many clumsy attempts at representing noises in onomatopoeic form--for example, "creer chee, creaca chee, creesh shee" to convey the sound of shoes on a sidewalk. At other points in the novel, the symbols are too apparent. The silver dollars which Charles uses to cover his dead fathers eyes later roll around floors and are found in desks and awarded as prizes in running races throughout the book...
What Hurry Tomorrow does convey, over and over, is a network of Catch-22's disciplining a doped-up, very vulnerable population. The doctor summarizes it aptly: "If you like it here, you can stay here, and if you don't like it then you'll have to stay here...
...Although the opinion mongers like The Crimson are undoubtedly liberal, and even socialist, they convey a distorted picture of the student body. A substantial, latent conservative stratum exists," Kesler said...
...CLAUSTROPHOBIC nature of Brecht's vision is matched only by the dreariness of the vehicle he uses to convey it. The Tutor is, on the whole, remarkably innocent of such dramatic niceties as plot interest, character development and convincing dialogue. Granted, allegory is hardly the most subtle of theatrical form; still, the minimum requirement for any drama is that it keep its audience awake, and if The Tutor succeeds at all in this regard, the credit belongs mainly to the blaring, percussive music which intervenes between scenes. A relatively short play, The Tutor succeeds at all in this regard...
...cheap shot--moved to tears, she starts to sing the theme from Camelot. Don Parker as the ex-drag queen has tried to capture the whining intonations of a cliched New York-actor-homosexual, but when reading Patrick's lines he sounds more like Henny Youngman (How can one convey pain saying, "I think I'm having an attack of the truth?") Kailani Lee works hard as the frenzied activist, but gets the weakest lines of all; in the middle of a breakdown, she bemoans the loss of "Jimi and Janis...