Word: devil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WALK, by John Hersey. Author Hersey's Faustian tale of a sophomore who temporarily becomes the Devil's man rates only a B-, but his pitiless portrait of today's collegiate scene earns him an easy...
...rude awakening traditional to upper-class English boys. Sent off to Lancing, a public school near Brighton, he found himself scrapping for perks with a pack of young snobs in full cry. He hated it, but in self-defense he repressed his homesickness and began to play the devil with his wit. At Oxford, where wit and atheism made him fashionable, he drank like a drain, hobbed with the nobs, japed and scraped his way through 2½ years of invaluable idleness. He wrote little but he peered at the peerage, at the descendants of the knights and ladies...
...WALK, by John Hersey. Though his fictional sense is slightly askew, Author Hersey's finely tuned reportorial ear is near perfect in this Faustian spoof about a morose sophomore who temporarily strikes a bargain with the Devil...
...list includes such films as Beat the Devil, Citizen Kane, Birth of a Nation, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Duck Soup...
Lithgow stages this tale of a soldier bargaining with the devil and learning better, with whimsy verging on burlesque. Lithgow himself plays the devil as a slithery eccentric who goes after souls with a butterfly net. The ubiquitous Arthur Friedman as narrator bounces in and out of the action, as does a chameleon chorus that appears as everything from peasants to sheep to a fluid landscape. Philip Heckscher, the soldier, is appropriately ingenuous but his voice often betrays uncomfortable strain. Jane Mushabac has choreographed the play. Her group dances have wit but become overly frantic when Lithgow's devil gets...