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Beamed into deep space from the troubled third planet of the solar system, the radio message constituted a small act of faith on behalf of all humankind. It expressed the conviction that we are not alone, that the joy and anguish of intelligent life are not an isolated accident on earth but have occurred often in the sweep of the universe. It also embodied the faith that humanity will survive, since it will be at least 48,000 years before our descendants can expect any answer...
DESPITE ALL of Samuel Beckett's considerable sympathy for the plight of humankind, his plays show little pity for the people who would undertake to produce them. Almost without exception, his theater pieces require magnificent acting and brilliant directorial interpretation for them to work half well on the stage. With little action to portray and only a few clues to Beckett's true intentions, a theater company, particularly one that's not thoroughly professional, sets itself up for tremendous risks when it tries to give life to the playwright's philosophical musings...
...seem to offer even stronger support for some genetic explanation. Most researchers are reluctant to accept such biological determinism as the sole cause, but many agree with Goodwin that there may very well be some errant gene that makes at least some alcoholics more vulnerable than the rest of humankind to the bottle...
...financially) tested by audiences: there must be uninterrupted mass appeal...plays register changes in the public temper more quickly, more openly...than do private forms," wrote Eric Rothstein in Restoration Tragedy. Drama is a symptom and a symbol of a community turned toward reality or away from it. "Humankind cannot bear very much reality," wrote T.S. Eliot, but neither, one might add, can it afford to have too little. And this spring, escapes with or without clothes to lands where "troubles melt like lemon drops" are taking on the trappings of a full-time occupation...
...with all the comforts that suburbia had to offer, Mr. Doig was not cynical or doubtful about what a decent human being could achieve in this world. He did not talk about progress in terms of dialectical materialism or historical forces; he believed that honesty and faith in humankind were the only essentials in the conquest of human injustice. All else took a back seat in his thinking about the world...