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...Thoreau, and the Berrigan brothers and their co-defendants have undoubtedly joined a goodly company of history's righteously angry men. However, a less impassioned perspective than that of Daniel Berrigan requires one to say that the U.S. is simply not so criminally degraded and steeped in blood lust as the Catonsville Nine apparently take it to be. Some may wonder if a confusion of realms is not involved, as in the distinction that Shakespeare made in Henry V specifically concerning a war: "Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul...
...wife has divorced him. He has resigned his job and gone to live in the addict-infested slums of the Lower East Side. Tormented by the thought that his options were at best illusory, he becomes a 39-year-old Ginger Man, filled with rage and a ravening sexual lust in a city he wildly envisions as a racial prison camp...
...despair we can all feel, not as women or men, but as human beings. And surely, this is Joyce Carol Oates' only real concern, evoking this kind of understanding, raising this kind of human consciousness. And her Wheel of Love then is also a wheel of lies, of lust, of loss, of life...
Wonderama (Syndicated) is a 13-year-old, three-hour-long, Every Bloody Sunday party, encouraging kids to every capital sin except lust. An affable man offscreen, Host Bob McAllister manically encourages kids to spray each other with whipped cream, or to play musical pieslast one to stop at a cutout target gets a faceful. Everyone in the 120-child audience receives at least half a dozen giftsand a chance to wave at the folks back home. During the six-hour taping, the kids are given soda and ice cream (sandwiches were once dispensed, but too many kids threw...
...collecting whatever money and publicity they can find on the trail, and finally unravel their filthy mess on Broadway. The major part of Boston theater, especially with the disappearance of the Charles, is devoted to this publicity game. These Boston "hits" drain theaters, backing, and audiences in their consuming lust for popularity on their way to New York. Least of all can these productions be described as companies on tour offering something new and exciting to the public...