Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Note- "All's Well That Ends Well" will play through September 6 in alternation with "Othello" and Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple," which will be reviewed in these pages. The drive to the picturesque grounds on the Housatonic River takes about two and a half hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike, Interstate 91, and the Connecticut Turnpike to Exit 31 (at the bottom of the exit ramp, turn left despite the sign). Performances tend to begin promptly at 2 and 8:30 in the air-conditioned Festival Theatre. There are free facilities for picknickers on the premises...
They are outsiders, set apart by birth, language, national identity and poverty. A Dutch newspaper has referred to them as "our new slave generation." They have been ridiculed as "spaghetti eaters" in Hamburg and "devil foreigners" in Stockholm. There are 6,000,000 of them in northern Europe-migrant workers from Italy, Spain, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and North Africa as well as black Africa, who have moved north in search of jobs...
...Many officials decide to stay in office to combat presidential policies−only to wake up one day and discover that they have had no tangible effect whatsoever. In the Johnson Administration, for example, Under Secretary of State George Ball came to be accepted as the house dove, the devil's advocate who could be counted upon to present all the opposing arguments to the prevailing course on the war. While Ball presented his case forcefully, his counsel was more often than not discounted even before it was given. Johnson even referred to him affectionately as "Mr. Stop...
Manson conceived of himself as both God and Devil-and was evidently able to convince only a certain type of drop out (mainly uneducated, homeless and delinquent girls) to accept him totally in these roles. But in the acts of ritualized murder his followers committed, Manson's role of Devil, not God, held sway...
...films have been essentially free-association essays. Recently he has become less interested in culture than in politics. Films like Le Gai Savoir, for example, are basically director's monologues, with actors as mouthpieces and the audience made mute witness to sometimes incoherent polemics. Sympathy for the Devil is a kind of transitional work, an attempt, albeit unsuccessful, to blend aesthetics and revolutionary politics. Unfortunately, Godard's symbolism is shopworn. The automobile graveyard as a symbol of Decadent Culture is as much a cliche of the New Cinema as riding off into the sunset...