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Of the nearly 2,500,000 Americans who were treated for mental illness in hospitals and clinics last year, almost a third were classified as psychotic: a person who, by minimum definition, has lost touch with reality. Many types of psychotics are harmless and helpless. The most dangerous type, the...
The climax of privacy came, for the Western middle class, in the early 20th century, with the heavily built and uniformly heated house. But gradually, in architecture and in the imagination, the wall gave way to the window. This reflected not only an esthetic desire to let in light, but...
As a blade is sharpened on a grindstone, Genet has defined himself against society. In a world where many people can scarcely explain what they do, a crime is at least a visible and dramatic act. Genet is the total theatrician in that he revels in making illusion indistinguishable from...
But Morgan--and this is what makes it intellectually much more than a one and one half hour gag--explores all sides to the illusion, holds it up to the lens and shows how flinty it is and how eaily cracked when someone doesn't believe in it.
Peter Stuart is an attractive Sebastian. And, perhaps taking a cue from his remarks, "I am yet so near the manners of my mother," his performance is rather effeminate, which has the virtue of meeting half way that of his twin sister Viola disguised as a boy. Alas, their speech...