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...religious farce. But the Christian satire merely provides a vehicle for Oskar Panizza to raise questions about the moralities of love and sex. Shades of evil like Lucifer, Satan or the Leviathan don't figure in this play, the concept takes on the simple form of the devil. God might as well go by the name of The Father, it's plenty descriptive and doesn't wrench a person outside the bounds of ordinary human experience. Mary, the Eternal Woman, is indeed typical, for she cannot deal straightforwardly with sexuality, and her virginity has nothing to do with her reservations...
Panizza's devil seems to be the only one who grasps this fact clearly, and it informs his dissatisfaction and frustration with the scheme of being and not being. He sees the heavenly world the way the playwright does--as a fraud. He's an intellectual type, consigned for his shrewdness to menial tasks and thwarted revolutions. He's sort of sympathetic in his weakness; surely he would be happier with his head in the clouds. Instead, he's worse off than we are, with his feet firmly planted under the ground. It might be going...
...Odori Festival of Japan; A dazzling repertory of traditional devil dances, temple dances, dragon dances and displays of ritual combat on tour with 40 dancers as Japan's offering to the bicentennial. May 3 - 4 at 8 p.m. at the Berklee Performance Center, corner of Mass. Ave. and Boylston Street. For tickets call...
...crazy according to Friedrich. It takes no eccentricity whatsoever. Apart from the obvious clinical and inveterate sorts of sickness most of us would call madness, Friedrich is constantly holding up types of behavior whose craziness is considerably less apparent. Among these are suicide, crime, perception of God and the Devil, alcoholism, and hysterical love. They are aberrant in respect to the social norms, but does that make them traits of madness? Are they even philosophically foolish? Again, these questions are useless, because there is no definition of madness. The way one regards mental illness is a result...
These periods of rest may be necessary, yet the feeling usually arises that urgent business is being left unattended, that an idle nation (idle in the sense of ignoring self-improvement and reform) does the devil's work. Indeed, during both the Hoover and Eisenhower presidencies, these pauses were accompanied by ambitious attempts to focus on great and worthy national goals...