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With-Richard Backus's Richard there is another problem. He is good enough for the role, and at times he becomes a troubled adolescent rather than as a fool who is also pretentious. But his good moments are not numerous enough, and, because he has a good deal of talent, his failure in the role becomes sad, and somehow symbolic of the botched job the whole affair...
Everyone agrees that Cambridge is going to be pretty heavy this summer. The University, not wanting to play the fool again, closed down the Houses this summer to keep street people from staying in students' rooms. There has already been a mini-riat. More are promised. Drug rip-offs are happening all the time. People have gotten shot trying to protect their stashes...
...graduation speaker at a little preparatory school for girls on Cape Cod a couple of weeks ago. I told the girls that they were much too young to save the world and that after they got their diplomas, they should go swimming and sailing and walking, and just fool around...
...himself, Othello initiates less action than any other Shakespearean tragic hero. Indeed, he often seems like lago's stringed puppet. His credulity makes him appear less than normally intelligent, and the rapidity with which jealousy races through his veins suggests that he is as much passion's fool as passion's slave. At the end of Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear, the hero has discovered himself. At the end of Othello, the hero has simply unmasked lago and uncovered his own calamitous error. He has been tortured but not tutored by his destiny...
...impressed any longer. Except for a panel discussion on Monday, he has boycotted the class's 25th reunion. "The whole notion of 'Funfest '45' is an obscenity in a time like like this." he says. "The announcements they sent were like those of damn-fool pantyraid collegians. It's proof these guys never got over being Harvard...