Word: incest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Freud family, the latter annoyingly over-endowed with satiric wit. Freud cuts a shabbily sympathetic figure, indulging his id with streams of forbidden cigars, lisping out lines like. "Is it my fault that I hit on it first? Did, anything prevent you from discovering psychoanalysis?", flaunting a preoccupation with incest, anality, and just about everything else the Viennese bourgeoisie lacked a penchant...
...than originality. This year's crowds chuckled every time barking was heard offstage. Canines figured in nine of the plays, from the howling hounds of hell in Timothy Mason's In a Northern Landscape to the title creature in Patrick Tovatt's Bartok As Dog. Feminism, incest and home cooking were other recurrent themes. But on half a dozen occasions one could hear distinctive voices rising above the collective murmur-and, in Kathleen Tolan's A Weekend Near Madison, the unmistakable cry of an infant...
...package fashioned by Bendix directors for William Agee during the merger battle of the Bendix Corp., Martin Marietta and Allied Corp. Paying Agee so much money would not be in the best interests of Bendix stockholders. The cozy relationship between boards of directors and top executives amounts to corporate incest...
Violence against women and children is the reality for too many victims of rape, incest, wife-beating, child-abuse, and other forms of inhumanity, some obvious and some more subtle. Thus, the recent appearance of a pair of posters on Harvard bulletin boards and kiosks is particularly upsetting. One, an advertisement for a Leverett House play, announces, "Rape, Incest. Murder. REVENGE." The other, a creation of the opportunes, asks us to "See Boys and Girls in Paine" (it's made to look as if a child had primed...
...least two things now vitiate the play's impact. In 1955, during the heyday of Freudian illumination, when the play first appeared as a one-acter, shortly to be revised and expanded to a two-acter, Eddie's love for his niece possessed shock effect. Incest isn't what it used to be. Furthermore, one doubts whether the current flood of illegal ah'ens cowers before an immigration official as if he had sounded a storm trooper's knock in the night...