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Stephen Aaron's direction is intelligent, fluid, and painstaking. The orchestra, under Arthur Finstein's musical direction, is as successful as the singers it accompanies. Linda Martin's costumes enhance the personality of each character, and Zack Brown's ingenious set has only one troublesome flaw: A screen showing the descriptions Brecht wrote for each scene--a means of emphasizing that the drama existed in the performance and not in the accident of suspense--is impossible to read from the lower rows or the side sections...
...flaw in Tarnopol is that as a book boy, he has "fallen in love with those complicated fictions of moral anguish" he keeps reading about. The depths of tragedy-that, Tarnopol thinks, is what an artist and a man must plumb. He yearns romantically to be a golden loser as well as a golden winner. Furthermore, he has a notion that one must prove one's manhood, not on the battlefields of war (like old-style machismo novelists) but in the combat zones of love. Nor is he fantasizing sexual conquest. For, paradoxically, what woman represents to Tarnopol...
Only on the subject of Nixon does Magruder offer a sustained, considered judgment: "Without question, Nixon had the potential to be the greatest conservative political leader of his time; he knew his goals and he had the skills required to achieve them. Yet he had a fatal flaw too, an inability to tolerate criticism, an instinct to overreact in political combat. I don't know which came first, the liberals' loathing of Nixon or Nixon's loathing of the liberals, but the passions fed on one another, grew more and more bitter, until once he achieved...
...heavy-handed onslaught of forced alliteration is the most obvious flaw. The result would be laughable if she were attempting a parody of Gerard Manley Hopkins--but she's not. She's perfectly serious...
...flaw in that kind of logic is that it doesn't take into account what shareholder resolutions actually do. It's safe to say that none of the resolutions Harvard voted on this spring has even a slight chance of actually getting the approval of stockholders owning a majority of the shares in any of the corporations involved. The people and foundations who propose shareholder resolutions are aiming instead at getting 3 per cent of a corporation's shares on their side, so that they can propose the resolution again the next year. The idea behind shareholder resolutions, unless...