Word: missing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ADAPTATION-NEXT are two one-acters directed by satirist Elaine May. Adaptation, Miss May's own play, is cleverly staged like a TV contest, with Gabriel Dell playing the adaptation game from birth to death. James Coco gives an enormously resourceful performance as a middle-aged man undergoing a humiliating induction examination in Terrence McNally's Next...
...Making It, Commentary editor and close student of cultural chic, explained the Sontag phenomenon this way: When Mary McCarthy arrived at "the more dignified status of Grande Dame," she left a vacancy as "Dark Lady of American Letters." With a timing she herself would be the first to appreciate, Miss Sontag appeared in the early 1960s to fill it, her belle-dame-sans-merci credentials already well in hand...
Apart from a dogmatic, astringent manner, Miss Sontag does not specifically resemble Miss McCarthy. She is, for one thing, far more "serious." By comparison, the younger McCarthy seems a kind of Vassar gun moll, playing Bonnie to the Clyde of Dwight Macdonald and other Partisan Reviewers of the 1930s and 1940s. Styles have changed. The vices (and virtues) of cleverness have now been replaced by the virtues (and vices) of relentlessly with-it seriousness. Susan Sontag-complete with academic sojourns at Oxford and the Sorbonne, and stints as a philosophy teacher-has proved to be just the girl to play...
...Miss Long was understandably disappointed. "I think I could have played with them," the tall mid-western girl said. Asked what she thought about being drafted, Miss Long replied, "I think it's kinda' cute...
...problem. Most of these were written by academic types, and most of them are indicative of the depths to which scholarship has plunged. These academics were anxious to publish, as they usually are; their literary agents told them there was a good thing going here and they should not miss out on it. Very few of them had any new ideas, but that mattered little. There they were, with more words in print. Along with the carnival came a book by Jacques Barzun, the former Dean of Faculties and Provost at Columbia. The Barzun book, called The American University, entered...