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...front pages of the country's various (if not varied) newspapers have for some time seemed strange, with photographs showing unfamiliar men peering out from behind desks at the United Nations. But if something seemed to be missing, the time for reassurance has arrived; Charlie Van Doren's sweating brow is back in its old spot on page...
Along with thirteen other contestants, Mr. Van Doren was arrested yesterday for perjuring himself before a grand jury. The press, meanwhile, rubbed its hands in anticipation of an orgy of moralizing...
...crimes. And it is fitting that the present perjury investigation follows the previous trial, because perjury is only the secondary crime. The first trial, a public one in which the Columbia instructor was indicted and sentenced by the press (acting on behalf of the entire nation) concerned Van Doren's really horrendous offense: getting caught...
There was a certain glamour about the Van Doren who tried to get away with it. Up to a point there was public sympathy, based on begrudged admiration for this daring young man who went along with the crooked rules of the game to make some cash. But when the bottom fell out, Van Doren was nothing more than immorality personified...
Coming after Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale, The Tempest caps a magnificent interrelated tetralogy, the dramatist's counterpart to the late Beethoven quartets Op. 130-133. All four plays explore the estrangement-remorse-reconciliation theme. But The Tempest is extraordinarily rich in meanings--in Mark Van Doren's felicitous words, "Any set of symbols, moved close to this play, lights up as in an electric field." Whatever else it may be, the play is a masterful study of the use and abuse of liberty (how often the very words "liberty," "free" and "freedom" crop up in the text...