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...type is what might be called the Rorschach-test play, a Harold Pinter specialty. The ambiguity of his plots and the opacity of his characters' motivations leave the playgoer with the task of figuring out what the play means. In the process, each member of the audience reveals himself to himself. For playgoers who relish self-analysis and puzzle solving, the genre is extremely stimulating; others may find it both irritating and baffling...
...novel's situation-it is too static to be called a plot-seems better suited to one of Harold Robbins' meat operas than to the work of a man who once won the National Book Award (for Steps) and who is now a professor of prose and criticism at Yale. Kosinski's hero, Jonathan Whalen, is sole heir to one of the nation's great industrial fortunes, and to a remarkably ordinary set of psychological wounds. Whalen's father, a tycoon now dead, gave his son insufficient attention, and seems thereby to be the villain...
...encouraging serious intellectual pursuits, however, is not simply to enrich the hours away from work, important as that may be. Without a breadth of interests, one may lack the learning and imagination to make the wise and creative judgments that no amount of professional competence can guarantee. In Harold Taylor's words: "Liberal education in its true sense is not an education which you get over with in order to go on to an adult preoccupation with professional academic studies. It is the source of ideas and attitudes which infuse the professional studies with their meaning for society and mankind...
...Little Light Music. Colonial Theater. A new Stephen Sondheim musical, based on Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night. Producer Harold Prince says it's nostalgic but erotic, whatever that means...
...that's a partial result of a general mellowing in R 'n' B over the past few years. Pickett's being replaced by the slickness of your Al Greens. And that's too bad, because you can't always dance to the Rolling Stones, and ass-wriggling to Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes just ain't the same...