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...Alternate lifestyles are not quite so fashionable. There is a new administration at Harvard, if not in Washington. The same Faculty which felt tricked two years ago can find a way not to punish 30 black students who occupied Massachusetts Hall for a week. The radicals who remain have forsaken the streets for community organizing. And many students are studying, for a lack of anything better to do, with an eye on professional school, or on a traveling fellowship which prohibits recipients from staying in one European city for more than three weeks at a time. We have changed...
...existential performance." (It couldn't be Maria's life anymore.) But the manipulation goes deeper. A woman watching T.V. footage of her house sliding into the ocean comments on the good camerawork. Early in the movie while the camera pass the desert and finally settles on a God-forsaken huddle of buildings. Maria's voice-over tells us that she grew up in a nearly deserted town called Silver Wells, Nevada. Maria says, "This is not Silver Wells...
...final act, O'Neill's ambitious experimental approach begins to achieve the fascination he has strived for all along. It is only after he has left compromise behind and forsaken all ties with realistic credibility that the theatrical experience transcends O'Neill's stupid intellectual conceits and takes its place in the tradition that led to Beckett and Albee...
Pity for the sickness in the mind of him who must destroy as a means of coping with a world he no longer understands; or pity for him who destroys because he feels the world has forsaken...
...philosophic sallies, this third part of the novel features essays on the history of the stoic movement and the creation cum Laung of an unreal universe in response to an insane environment. In a penetrating investigation of changing criterion of artistic excellence. Park perceptively notes that ordinary craftsmen have forsaken objective standards of proficiency, "in the face of the bewildering criterion of genius"--very directly echoed by Norman Mailer's recent suggestion that the problem with this country is that everyone fancies himself a genius of one form or another...