Word: logics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOMECOMING is both realistic and surreal, on a mythic yet natural plane, and most unconventionally conventional. While defying the norms of family and society, this domestic drama by British Playwright Harold Pinter is an exercise in instinctual logic. Vivien Merchant and Paul Rogers lead a perfect cast in Peter Hall's pluperfect production...
...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT. Michael Flanders and Donald Swann break into still another diverting ditty, such as that non-classic The Gasman Cometh, or let go with a bit of lopsided logic: "If you put a baby in the bath and it turns red, it's too hot for your elbow...
Another sign of Playwright Garson's ineptitude as a satirist is her determination to testify in the courtroom of drama to so many things she knows to be not true. Her tactic for showing aversion to the Viet Nam war is not to question the logic of that war but to imply that Johnson, like Macbeth, has "supped full with horrors" and is an unfeeling, bloody-minded monster. Unwilling to concede the humanity of others, she reduces her characters to caricatures. They eventually take their revenge by draining MacBird of most of its fun and all of its life...
...historical or strategic basis is just not his forte. When asked to discuss some of the more subtle problems inherent in America's policy, he responds in cliches. For example, he was asked why America's European allies have been unable to understand and appreciate the logic of our position in Southeast Asia? His answer: "In the present world, allies on all sides don't always agree." Nothing else...
...dream would be false if it made everything as clear as daylight. If it woke up and became rational it would no longer be Finnegans Wake." True enough, but a more serious charge is that the dream of H. C. Earwicker does not in fact follow a dream like logic but conforms to the logic imposed upon it by the esthetic, moral and historical theories of James Joyce...