Word: dermot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cool voices that weave in and out. "My body is walking in space/ My soul is in orbit with God, face to face," the eerie voices tell us, and we can believe in their moonglow-bathed hallucinations. But no sooner is the mood established, than composer Galt Mac Dermot and lyricists Gerome Ragni and James Rado destroy it by tipping their hats to the Times Square crowd. All of a sudden the chorus hippies are yelling out a catalogue of hallucinatory cliches ("Red Light! White light. Your skin is soft!")--and the music descends into vulgarized pop-isms reminiscent...
...Brien's anarchic foray against the foolishness of fact begins with a university student who is trying to write a realistic novel between courses at the National University. It is a glum, pompously polysyllabic work which gets out of hand because the main character is Dermot Trellis, described as "an eccentric author," a publican who has "conceived the project of writing a salutary book on the consequences that follow wrongdoing." Trellis' characters, in turn, include Fergus MacPhellimey, a "pooka," which is some sort of leprechaun, and John Furriskey, whose task it is to attack women and behave...