Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many, this may be wrong, reports Dr. Jean Mayer in Science. By a quirk of body chemistry, the brain's appetite-regulating centers can create the opposite effect - if you exercise enough, you may eat less and get thinner...
...What Mayer sees in Measure for Measure is the Duke of Vienna parading vainly before television cameras, police brutality, and hippies -- the Johnsonian equivalent of Elizabethan fops. For his text, he seems to have taken the Duke's line, "This news is old enough, yet it is every day's news." In the program note, he dwells on the fact that the summer of 1604, when the play was produced, was a long hot summer of bad government and bad times...
...Measure for Measure is fundamentally a medieval inquistion into the nature of sin. Watching Mayer tone down the medieval and bring out the modern social comment is something like seeing Luis Set redecorate Chartres. This is not to say that it is without good moments, full of insight into the deepest insides of the play. But they are only moments...
...main thread of the play, which could pull it all together, has eluded Mayer as it has eluded so many before him. Perhaps it no longer exists; or perhaps only a devout Tomist could discover...
...performances, let me just say that two-week Shakespeare is insanity, as Mayer must know, having barely escaped unscathed from a three-week attack on The Tempest last year. By dashing off Shakespeare, the amateur forfeits his main advantage over the professional -- the unlimited time for rehearsals that can make performances almost second nature to an actor. Under the circumstances, the cast has done quite well. There are very few bad readings, but many indifferent ones. And the pace is much too slow...