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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reality assumes wild forms as present and past collide and then split apart like memories bouncing off the walls of the brain. Each scene is Charlie's remembrance of incidents of his youth--his last good book, his first good job, his parents' first and last fight, his first sex. Charlie Now (age 45) and Young Charlie (age 17) waltz together on stage. They bicker. The elder blames the younger for childhood failures and gets taunted in return for his failure in maturity...
...secret to Da lies deeper, however, than his bumpkin mannerisms or even his placid gentility. His ignorance serves as a shield against the violent onslaught of painful knowledge. In Da's world, where rosebush cuttings and fresh peaches take first priority, knowledge can only oppress. By reinforcing the suffering of the lower class, teaching them about a better way of life they can never have, this knowledge ultimately spurs Charlie to leave Ireland for London and middle class success as a writer. But Da remains blissful in his ignorance...
...room decorated with hand painted "Sink with Ted. Swim with Reagan" and "Reagan Forever" posters, the smiling candidate said that he had been a Democrat most of his life and that when elected, he will be the first president to hold a lifetime membership to the American Federation of Labor...
...following week against UMass, the first act in Harvard's grotesque drama "Maim the Quarterback" opened with strained ligaments in the St. John knee...
...interpretations of "Feudalism" or 'Development.' It requires a basic knowledge of what happened when and where, and this can only come from a sustained study of the sources. Doubtless the latest social scientific wizardry is more exciting than biographic of popes or medieval chronicles, but without the second the first is meaningless...