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...American life. These, argues Boorstin, are the genuine "revolutionaries," and the book is studded with their biographies: Willis H. Carrier, who homogenized the country with air conditioning; Chester F. Carlson, the man who doomed the secret by inventing the Xerox system; R.G. Dun, the credit rating pioneer who made Everyman's private life the subject of public record...
Beyond the archdemonic Hitlers, Updike points out, are the evils that persist in Everyman: "Is not destructiveness within us as a positive lust, an active hatred? Who does not exult in fires, collapses, the ruin and death of friends? What man can exempt from his purest sexual passion and most chivalrous love, the itch to defile...
...seems to ask, can men come to terms with their enemies and themselves and perhaps even with their God without the promise of a savior? Yet, the world being what it is, how can that savior help failing? The author may not quite make the Jew into Everyman. But in the end he does something even bolder: he makes Everyman...
...staged a stunningly successful version of Clytemnestra, one of her major achievements, and choreographed two powerful new works: Mendicants of Evening, in which she fuses poetry and dance to an electronic score, and Myth of a Voyage, a dance drama that she describes as "a gentle satire on everyman's eternal longing for the fulfillment of a dream." Those new creations brought her a lifetime total of 146 original ballets. No other woman has ever contributed such a large body of work to the theater...
...Avenue to the groves of academe, from the incontinence of diaper days to the impotence of a palsied hand of poker in an old folks' death house. That will give you some brief notion of Dr. Hero. Yes, the central figure is our old friend and sometime bore, Everyman; but dismiss your initial, legitimate worries. This Everyman is no gullible Candide looking for the best of all possible worlds, no dour Diogenes straining for a glimpse of an honest man by lamplight. This guy is as slyly glib as a carnival barker, as horny as Portnoy, as resilient...