Word: everywoman
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...plot and psychology are, as George Orwell understood, inimical to the cautionary tale. He deliberately cast his main characters--Winston Smith and his lover Julia, the doomed spiritual and sexual revolutionaries opposing the Stalinesque exactions of Oceania--as archetypes of the ordinary. They are a modern Everyman and Everywoman pitilessly propelled forward into a future that seemed all too possible in 1949, when the novel was published. The recent passing of Orwell's prophetic date has not rendered their lives or their fates much less plausible...
Aside from the suspense surrounding Christ's betrayal, little dramatic tension sustains the show, Plot and development are almost irrelevant; character development remains minimal; interaction between the people on stage never sun passes a superficial level. But their portrayals represent everyman and everywoman. Any other play or musical would have a tough time filling an evening of theater with such nebulous stuff as joyousness, exhuberance and religious excitement, but Godspell has the requisite level of professionalism to carry it off, and carry it off well...
...water and general decay. (It sounds more and more like a Harvard House.) Enter a pint-sized pixie of bountiful energy and non-stop chatter. She is never given a name, though she becomes the play's main character: her anonymity seems intended to make her a sort of Everywoman. The character blends saint and sinner both with startling speed, making for a difficult role. Jennifer Raiser does not pull it off. In her earnest enthusiasm, she tramples many of her own lines as well as those of other cast-members. Her incessant whine grows tiresome...
...initiate this interest in women who are old enough to remember Eisenhower and Stevenson, or who still savor the image of Simone Signoret, everywoman's Bogart, in a trenchcoat, dangling a cigarette, in Room at the Top. Rather, a series of changes in women themselves-the way they run their lives, the way they see themselves-seems to have caused the response in men. Feminism has had much to do with it, though not always directly. All kinds of eddies and crosscurrents have swirled around the practice and politics of sex in the past ten years. A feminist leader...
Retired Bishop William Moody's remarks concerning the ordination of women priests in the Episcopal Church [Oct. 6] should be equated with an obscene phone call to Everywoman...