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...Some people just analyze the work flat into dullness," his interlocutor replied. "I remember one year at the Faulkner conference I heard somebody say, 'Well, I went to the Louvre, and I was able to determine what was hanging when Faulkner was in France. We know he saw the Monets and the Manets, and there was some Cézanne, but Picasso is questionable. I think I'm about to change my mind on whether Faulkner was a cubist.' Now that's numbing stuff, and some of it went on with Eudora's work today...
Cole writes with a conviction marred by problems in execution. The script seems dramatically contrived, with the psychologist serving less as a character than as a forced interlocutor. When Jackson refuses to answer a question, his doctor provides facile exposition by reciting information from Jackson's life. Worse, the doctor's prescription--for Jackson to give back the medal so he will recover--makes the insidious implication that the hundreds of veterans who did return their medals did so to assuage psychological problems. Cole seems to ignore the political protest that the action represented. As the doctor, Pochoda brings concern...
Fitzpatrick has chosen The Stronger, a short Strindberg play, as a prologue to introduce the undercurrent of manipulation that runs through The Creditors. It is the weaker of the two plays at Quincy. This bizarre dialogue in which one interlocutor is silent holds great potential for a confident actress, but Barrett rushes through the scene with few pauses, leaving no time for Kristiina Harrison to react, and leaving the audience no time to understand. (This weekend, Barrett will play the silent role and Sarah Sewall will go on as the speaker...
...there are some very obstinate misunderstandings. Among my Western interlocutors everybody agrees that the Polish events are of historical importance; some add that they have actually opened a new epoch in contemporary history. Almost everybody sympathizes with the Polish cause and maintains that the creation of Solidarity was probably the only possible way to change the decaying system in a peaceful manner. But at this point, the misunderstandings emerge. Sooner or later my Western interlocutor expresses the opinion that the whole things is very risky. Too risky, and that the Poles themselves do not understand...
...reached the top of a Communist hierarchy except by ruthlessness. Yet the charm of the Chinese leaders obscured that quality, while Brezhnev's gruff heavynandedness tended to emphasize it. The Chinese even amid the greatest cordiality kept their distance. Brezhnev, who had physical magnetism, crowded his interlocutor...