Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JACKSON: No man who is not hurting can tell a man who is hurting how to holler. He may tell him that in addition to being mad you've got to get smart, and you've got to have method to your madness. The business of trying to decry people because of the way they complain of injustice is past and gone...
Daniel Sclizer's Humanities 105 production deserves high praise for scorning the tactile orgies, eruptions of radical pathologies, raucous vocal distortion, audience involvement (read intimidation), gymnastic runaways, and fatuous political irrigation's which have afflicted numerous productions this year. We got through without bluejeans, mad scenes, copulation, fashionable violence, obscenity, and references to Bobby Seale. The words are the play (any play) and Seltzer gave us the words with acceptable cuts and no Grotowski exercises or similarly insulting polemical interment. Give me the words and allow me to decide what I am experiencing...
...stood on the curb, caught on the knife edge between two unhappy and possibly hopeless worlds. Behind me was a bank window, offering joyless, useless prizes for opening an account. Across the street were the kids, ramming their way into the mad jumble of Bryant Park. Later, the militants-the YAWFs, the Progressive Labor S.D.S. wing and others-fought their way onto the platform and kept off speakers they did not approve of. If that was the future, it, too, would be a joyless prize...
...consummation of any close relationships with women. One scene in Russell's The Lonely Heart shows Tchaikovsky and the rich dilettante Vladimir Shilovsky in bed together. The film suggests that Shilovsky's possessiveness and vanity drove the composer into his disastrous marriage with the neurotic (and eventually mad) Antonina Milyukova...
...essence of her view seems to be a sort of humane pessimism about violence. Dreams do not come true, she asserts with Marx. "The rarity of slave rebellions and uprisings among the disinherited and downtrodden is notorious; on the few occasions when they occurred, it was precisely 'mad fury' [in Sartre's phrase] that turned dreams into nightmares for everybody...