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...married for 20 years and is the father of two grown children. For some 15 years he has been a compulsive philanderer, mostly with women. Yet the only genuine and wrenching affection he has felt has been for a man young enough to be his son: 23-year-old Julian Weston (Michael Moriarty). A year before the play begins, Alan had left Julian. Now he has been impelled instinctively to return...
...drama unfolds with undistracted simplicity, eloquence and force. In Act I, Julian reveals the anguish and hysteria to which he was driven by Alan's abandonment. The two are reconciled and go to bed together. In Act II, Alan's wife Jacqueline makes a touching plea for Alan's return, but he refuses. In Act III, Alan discovers the seamy side of Julian: that he has been the most indiscriminate sort of male prostitute. Yet the two men finally agree that to deny their love for each other would be to make life not worth living...
...gays or straights. British Play wright Hopkins makes three serious points and makes them well. The first of these affirms what Diana Trilling has written of D.H. Lawrence: "The sexual ity which Lawrence celebrated was mat ing. What the present generation means by love-making is coupling." Alan and Julian make love in Lawrence's sense...
...Pugwash, Nova Scotia, one of the first international scientific conferences to discuss the dangers of nuclear disaster. Last week, when Eaton turned 90, he received congratulatory telegrams from President Podgorny, Premier Kosygin and Party Leader Brezhnev, as well as Chicago's Mayor Daley, Senator William Fulbright and Sir Julian Huxley. Turning up at a reception given by the mayor of Cleveland, Eaton was optimistic about the energy crisis. "We will harness the sun and the power of the tides," he predicted. "We'll not let the world stand still because of a lack of energy...
VIDAL HAS WRITTEN another historical novel, Julian, set in much different circumstances. It is the story of Julian the Apostate, a late Roman Emperor, and the novel stands in the Walter Pater tradition. But in Julian Vidal did more than merely ascribe motives to an historical actor--he developed the actor into a rather remarkable character. Burr remains an historical figure, with attributed motives, but little real depth...