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...this year is like previous ones, the so-called "fools" will elicit smatterings of laughter during the week-long initiation process. Editors tell fools the pranks are a prelude to a final election--which they reveal as a hoax at the end of the week...
...along. A play with only five characters and five murders has a problem surviving anything but a bloody depressing finale. Levin provides an out; it is played well, adding a twist to make sure the audience leaves laughing and able to speculate on what happens next. That mixture of laughter and uncertainty make Deathtrap audiences easy prey...
...strike, McNamara began talking of a blockade, accompanied by "an ultimatum" to the Soviets, which he conceded would have dangers also. Said he: "This alternative doesn't seem to be a very acceptable one, but wait until you work on the others." That provoked grim laughter, but after many more meetings a blockade was decided on. It ultimately drew overwhelming support from world public opinion, and it induced the Soviets to pull their missiles out of Cuba without any necessity for the U.S. to fire a shot...
...Zuckerman and Portnoy have close ties. Both star in comedies of the unconscious, burlesques of psychoanalytic processes whose irreverence and shocking explicitness challenge the pieties that protect hidden feelings. "Ill tell you your calling," screams Zuckerman at Critic Appel, "President of the Rabbinical Society for the Suppression of Laughter in the Interest of Loftier Values! Minister of the Official Style for Jewish Books Other than the Manual for Circumcision...
...obvious flaw in this production is that while the world and its problems have changed over the past 20 years, the songs are preserved unchanged. The witty lyrics still draw laughter from the audience, but the barbs of social criticism have grown blunt with time. As Terrence Currier '57, one of the actors in the Boston production, puts it, "Tom considers political satire dead ever since Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize...