Word: insights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anxiety. Although the rest of the country is reading and enjoying Bloom Country, I'm glad you had the sense to protect the Harvard community from this offensiveness. Who needs humor that lampoons our confused social mores? As a replacement, I suggest Heathcliffe. It's not funny and lacks insight, but at least it won't offend anyone. Too long have I felt the barbs of Berke Breathed's satire and am glad you have censored him. A grateful Penguin Committee for Social Responsibility (Transcribed by Allen Glazier...
...contaminating" effect on his germinating seed of originality. This avoidance of the prevailing force of other, perhaps professional production, may be more than merely an excuse for ignorance-it is in fact more understandable than complete indifference. But studying past productions is not he only way to gain insight into a script. Besides members of the Committee on Dramatic Arts, some of whom are quite happy to advise, and Widener's own dramatic arts section (Pusey 3). Harvard boasts an extensive resource on contemporary and historical theater. For the majority of student directors, the Harvard Theater Collection remains an untapped...
This thorough synthesis makes up for the most superficial treatments of some other plays later in the book. Tidbits from studies of Desire Under the Elms, Mourning Becomes Electra and The Iceman Cometh provide occasional flashes of insight, so do a few of the details from Berlin's otherwise sketchy treatment of O'Neill's life--for instance, the young playwright was kicked out of Princeton for throwing a rock through the window of then-president Woodrow Wilson. And describing the disease' which made O'Neill's hands shake for the last decade of his life--effectively cutting...
...aimless ambition, futile romance, grotesque distortions of honor, loneliness in a crowd. The play becomes the raucous comedy that Chekhov always insisted it was and hurtles exuberantly toward a triumph of optimism over experience. Among a solid cast, including Jeremy Geidt as the pathetic Chebutykin, three performers achieve fresh insight: Alvin Epstein as a hyperkinetic but somewhat dim Vershinin; Cheryl Giannini as a hard, petulant Masha; and Karen MacDonald as a vulgar, manipulative yet curiously sympathetic Natasha, the sister-in-law who drives the three sisters from their family home...
...horror upon horror on the way: the Holocaust, the Gulag, the carnage of World War II, the postwar purges in Eastern Europe, the failed 1956 Hungarian uprising. The literature documenting the inhumanity of the age is vast. Yet Konrád's masterly new novel offers fresh insight into the cruel stratagems of totalitarian rule...