Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Calling the lack of lighting "an emergency," Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55 said that he found the Common "completely dark" on a recent inspection. "You would not want your loved ones--your wife or your daughter--to walk across there at five at night," he added. "People have to walk through there to go home after work...
...with its black drapes and grilled slits of windows and 25 rickety wooden seats at most, all bets are off. They might perform one of Samuel Beckett's plays. They might blow the place up. They might just turn out all the lights and make you sit in the dark for an hour. Then again, that might be the Beckett play...
...original version of Krapp's Last Tape, one of those Beckett masterpieces which do not number accessibility among their many virtues, the audience did essentially that--sat in the dark--while the 69-year-old Krapp listened to his own voice on a tape. The audience listened to him listen to himself, replay himself, and tape his reactions to the replays. Mercifully, by skillful use of some impressive high-tech equipment, director Adam Cherson has somewhat embellished the purity of this experience. In this new version, Krapp (David Gullette) sits facing a hidden video monitor, and his reproduced image faces...
...fears of blacks, homosexuals and, possibly, women. Raised to consciousness, these fears are exorcised. It is a quest for identity based on Joseph Conrad's admonition: "In the destructive element immerse. That is the way." The way to what? Quite probably, the way to understand and absorb the dark tenor and temper of the age, the kind of visceral awareness of anarchy that William Butler Yeats had in mind when he wrote, "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned." Mamet's problem in Edmond is that his intuitional reach exceeds...
...brutal cycle, but Lowell always managed to emerge intact, writing away as if the poet and his demons were connected in some dark Dionysian manner. His second wife, the novelist and critic Elizabeth Hardwick, describes him in 1958 at the time he completed Life Studies. After three months in an institution, "the papers piled up on the floor, the books on the bed, the bottles of milk on the windowsill, and the ashtray filled. He looked like one of the great photographs of Whitman...