Word: marcuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...odder aberrations of the 19th: Victorian morality. British Historian J.H. Plumb has aptly described "the Victorian's schizophrenic attitude-the conspiracy of silence, the excessive modesty that made the sight of a female ankle wildly erotic, contrasted with the baby prostitutes in the Strand." American Scholar Steven Marcus, in his study The Other Victorians, wrote of "a world part fantasy, part nightmare, part hallucination and part madhouse." Last week London was atwitter over not one but two sex scandals that came to light when some documents dating from the days when that curious world still flourished were finally unsealed...
...MARCUS BRUTUS...
...Stage/West cast is competent without being proficient, though Rombola's Cat has a disarmingly baffled naiveté and Scott's Memphis-Cleopatra is both perky and voluptuous. As of now, Marcus Brutus is more than a first draft and less than a finished drama, but certainly worth the doing as an intriguing work in progress...
Playwright Paul Foster is not a newcomer to the stage. His Tom Paine (1968) enjoyed substantial popularity off-Broadway, particularly with younger audiences, thanks in part to Tom O'Horgan's flamboyant staging. In Marcus Brutus, Foster has followed Tom Stoppard's lead in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Just as R. & G. used Hamlet for its substructure, Marcus Brutus uses Julius Caesar...
...Marcus, national chairman of the National Caucus of Labor Committees, went even farther into fantasy. By supporting birth control, said Marcus, Rockefeller has made a "criminal commitment to genocide accompanied by a commitment to reduce massively the standards of living of the world's industrialized sector to levels matching those in the Third World." This was too much even for one of Rocky's sternest critics on the committee. "I find your statement so excessive and so extreme that it is counterproductive," said California Democrat Jerome Waldie...