Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...militancy--an emotionalism to which the democratic society, with its incorrigible tendency to self-love, is particularly prone: a state of collective hysteria in which you see your own side as the repository of all virtue, the adversary--on the other hand--as the embodiment of all that is evil and inhuman...
Puntila and His Hired Man, unlike Galileo, resembles a journey without a destination. In Brecht, dramatic conflict does not resolve itself in tragedy as a death struggle between good and evil, but in irony as a life struggle between irreconcilable divisions in the human psyche itself...
...seems to be Isherwood's intention to show the spirit of Vedanta triumphant against such corruption, but it is the evil Patrick who runs away with the book. Much of the story is told through his letters home. They all tell the same facts, but each is satanically slanted to fit in with the several views of him self that Patrick wants to cultivate: the dutiful son, the weak but loving husband, the homosexual friend in power. The letters also give Isherwood a chance to poke fun at Olde England in parodies ("This brassy tea, this wooden toast, these...
Joshua Rubins turns in an outstanding monologue in each of the two acts. A ponderous fellow, Rubins is light on his feet and shuffles his weight around the stage well as he declaims on the old stand-by, evil. Lucy Freedman is, uh, compelling, as a streetwalker...
Despite wayward lighting and some shaky scenery, all eyes remain on Amy Singewald in The Madwoman of Chaillot. And when the evil people are banished from the world, when pigeons fly again, air turns to crystal, grass sprouts on pavements, and perfect strangers hug each other, the shaking scenery seems part of the celebration...