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...trouble, for which Waugh is really responsible, comes after Sebastian takes up a drunkard's residence in the remoteness of North Africa. When he leaves-for the last several hours, he is never seen-he takes with him the story's focal point and vitality. Like many narrators, Charles is a reactor, someone who responds to people more interesting than himself. When he is forced to stand in the spotlight, he does not know what to do, and therefore does nothing...
Narrated by many of the play's characters--most notably the clear-eyed, ironic Scholar Wu, who wanders around in portable stocks with a sign that says "Drunkard" draped around his neck--this is the tale of a decent, confused lad, whose body is "a tent of exile" from society. Scolded by his mother for his idleness. Aladdin is dispatched by a wicked magician to an enchanted cave, where he is to fetch a magic lamp. Aladdin winds up hanging onto the lamp, using its genie to help win the hand of a Sultan's beautiful daughter. The magician...
...local authorities, he is treated like a piece of nothing-like he is less than a human being," said one ruddy-faced protester. Then he added: "Poland is like a family. The government is the father and the peasants and workers are the children. If the father is a drunkard and is not good to his children, they will pay him back in kind. But if he is good to his children, they will pay him the respect he is due." At Rzeszow this particular family feud may continue for some time, perhaps as a waiting game neither side...
...Soviet embassy in Washington warned of "far-reaching consequences" if the "kidnaping" of the boy was allowed to proceed. Walter's father, who speaks almost no English, asked: "Am I a drunkard? Do I starve my children? Have I broken any laws? I have not. So who is the Government to take my child?" In defense of young Walter, an aunt, Anastasia Junko of Santa Barbara, Calif., declared that even in the Ukraine the children had never been close to their father, whom friends of the family describe as a strict disciplinarian. Daughter Natalie, who also insists on staying...
...Mediterranean" subjects of the 1930s, with their bulls and horses, virgins and Minotaurs, caves, ruins and nymphs. Allegory was the conscious, intelligible form of Picasso's vast instinctive talent for metamorphosis, whereby a single form could harbor two or more literal meanings: a glass of absinthe including a drunkard's head, a guitar turning into a torso or a vagina, a bicycle seat becoming a bull's head. Moreover, the ability to handle allegory was the proof of high ambition: Gauguin had gone to Tahiti to paint huge emblems of human fate, not just to see papayas...