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...REHEARSAL is one of the most brilliant and bitter black comedies yet written by French Playwright Jean Anouilh. In it, some worldly French aristocrats ferret out and destroy the true love that exists between a count and a governess...
...Rehearsal, by Jean Anouilh. The world will ferret out purity and destroy it-this is the theme that obsesses Anouilh. In The Rehearsal, the worldlings commit an "elegant and sophisticated crime," the murder of the true love, as undeniably transfiguring as it is seemingly banal, that exists between a jaded French count and a virginal governess. Around this crime Anouilh has fashioned a subtle, scintillating, and bitter black comedy. The ironic gaiety is inverted mourning, the unseen tears are those that disillusionment sheds over its lost illusions...
...already firmly entrenched in his favorite role of being the educator-entertainer. He was not, however, presenting himself as one of the scholar-professors (though he intuitively knew more than most of these); he felt no obligation to stick to all the historical facts, nor even to ferret them all out in the first place. Nor did he hesitate to fill the play with anachronisms, thereby incurring the wrath of a host of commentators (most of whom, however, would not dream of criticizing Shakespeare for including clock-strikings in Jullus Caesar and billiards in Antony and Cleopatra...
...more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened...
Chan was assigned to the 136-man "pistol squad" that functioned as i) a bodyguard for visiting dignitaries, and 2) an agency to ferret out counter-revolutionary activity. Within a year, Chan was a party member; by 1951 he was promoted to leadership of the pistol squad and was in charge of security arrangements during Mao Tse-tung's first visit to the city. Says Chan: "Had I known what I know now, I would have shot...