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...nearly 25 years after not graduating from a Bolivian 'high-school' whose last trimester conflicted with early orientation at the North-American college of my choice--where 'comp' meant 'comprehensive final exams,'--I am again a degree candidate, accredited now by Fair Harvard herself...
...little disturbing to see Jonson make fun of someone simply because he's not too bright and wants to prosper. Sir Epicure Mammon (Spito Veloudos) has always been the character in the play I most identify with (I was typecast to play him in a high-school production), Veloudos is drunk with his own words, his ecstatic visions of gluttony. All his appetites--gustatory and sexual--are to be fulfilled by the Philosopher's Stone, but even these pleasure, poignantly, pull after a while. All he can think of to do with the phoenix once captured...
Despite an already certain Columbia victory, tremendous effort was registered by Sal D'Agostino at 190 as he came around from a twenty point disadvantage to pin his opponent Columbia freshman Mat Peckman, formerly a high-school All-American...
LAST THURSDAY, three Palestinian guerrillas killed 20 Israeli high-school students. The next day, Israeli bombers killed 48 residents of a refugee camp in southern Lebanon. Like the three untraced car-bombs that killed 23 Dubliners Friday, like the murder of Marcus Foster by the Symbionese Liberation Army which apparently came to a fiery end this weekend, these events seem impossible to justify by rational, humane standards--by any rule that doesn't hold an entire people, including the young, sick or powerless, responsible for another people's suffering...
...representation at all in this collection, and the "radical innovators"--Samuel Beckett, Nathalie Sarraute, Eugene Ionesco--have all been around for quite a while, Surely Shenker could have made room for some new faces by omitting a few of the more trivial pieces--for instance, "Howlers," a collection of high-school malapropisms only slightly above the level of Kids Say the Darnedest Things...