Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Hamlet...
...plays Papp chose for his first season suited his grey color scheme very well, at least as he characterizes them. Papp directed a freewheeling modernization of Hamlet, which he says is about alienation and the question of existence, and Czech Playwright Vaclav Havel's The Memorandum, a satire on the evils of selling out and compromise. The Public Theater's artistic director, Gerald Freedman, staged the rock musical Hair, which to Papp is "about loneliness," and Jakov Lind's Ergo, which dealt with guilt for the horrors of World...
...father, methinks I see my father," quoth Prince Hamlet. Where? asked the startled Horatio. "In my mind's eye," replied the prince, with what must have been a sly smile. Today, more and more artists are devoting themselves to art that exists primarily in the mind's eye. Called "conceptual art," it usually exists in the form of a scale model, a preliminary sketch or a written description, suitable for framing. Any of these items, the artists explain, are but a hint, a shadow, a shade, a clue to the real thing, which is usually some concept...
Center examines the Alsop record. Author Edward Engberg, a fellow of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, quotes the columnist's consistently upbeat comments on the war. In 1963, Engberg points out, Alsop wrote a glowing account of the strategic-hamlet program, which was soon to collapse in shambles. "The gamble," said Alsop, "has paid off. This spring, therefore, this war was being won." The following year, he was encouraged enough by the food shortage in North Viet Nam to declare that a blockade along with "further air attacks can progressively destroy the entire military, industrial...
...great survivors. In the wildly freewheeling last half of the novel, Enderby returns to claim his old poet's self. On the lam from all his would-be reformers-including the police-he ends up in the layatories of Morocco, blissfully scribbling a long poem based on Hamlet. Enderby may not have the gift for living, but, concludes Burgess, "poets, even minor ones, donate the right words" that enable others to live. On this claim-that they are saviors who cannot save themselves-Burgess rests his case for all poets...