Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GLASS BOOTH is a dramatic offspring of the Adolf Eichmann trial, reviving the stale questions of German guilt, Jewish passivity, and the paranoid personality of the archkiller. The play's best excuse for being is a performance of atomic power and blinding virtuosity by Donald Pleasence. He is like a neurotic blood relative whom one cannot abide or yet disown. He is as hallucinatorily real as a dream from which one cannot awaken...
...Share the guilt" seems to be the theatrical slogan of the hour. The Man in the Glass Booth asks playgoers to share guilt for the massacre of the Jews. The Great White Hope asks playgoers to share guilt for the oppression of the Negro. Both are dramas of contrition with little internal life; they would scarcely stir, except for the borrowed adrenaline of newspaper headlines, past history, and the emotional sympathies of the already converted. For the price of a mea culpa, the audience is made to feel good by feeling...
...attach the language of his rhetoric to any reality; he was perfectly capable of using the same word, 'Freedom,' let us say, to describe a ward fix in Minneapolis and a gathering of Quakers. He was a politician; he could kiss babies, rouge, rubber, velvet, blubber and glass. God had not given him oral excellence for nothing...
...root of his life-giving philosophy-which required every man to go through battles, if the world would live, and every woman to bear a child-yes, take that root off the high attic shelf of some Prudie Parsely of a witch-ancestor and plant it in the smashed glass and burned brick of the 20th century's junkyard...
...checked tablecothes, glass globe candles, and the sights and sounds of cabaret will make Lehman Hall a little less like Lehman Hall tonight...