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...second-a span of nearly three decades. Like its ancestor Dada, surrealism was brought to term by young refugees in the cafes of neutral Zurich during World War I, in a clamor of theatrical high jinks, concrete-poetry recitals, chance-based collages and mock rituals. Surrealism became a common ground for bourgeois intellectuals agonized by the futility of their expected social roles. But it smacks of artificiality to confine either Dada or surrealism too closely to any group or period. Some of Picasso's paintings, from 1913 onward, are regarded as major surrealist icons by virtue of their aggressive...
...report dwells on just how much Hoover, a stickler for rules as far as ordinary agents were concerned, could tolerate improper use of bureau resources by high officials-especially himself. In fact, much of the purpose of the FBI's exhibits section, which is supposed to prepare courtroom mock-ups of crime scenes, seemed to be to care for Hoover's colonial house in the capital's wealthy northwest district...
...conspires to undercut the play's serious intention. As if taking the cue from Donald Soule's unbalanced set design, which places the richly-colored tavern hearth flush against the dry burlap of symmetrical castle towers, the comic scenes, appearing in the midst of the serious, only seem to mock them. The peak of this production is reached when Falstaff, balancing his weight on a chair balanced on a table top, wearing a pillow on his head as crown, chastises Hal in mimicry of his father, the king. Even at the climax of the play's final battle scene...
...something is wrong. Dreyfuss is afflicted with that mock disease of the talented and the very lucky-nostalgia for struggles past. "From the time I was nine to 25,1 had to go for interviews and hustle jobs. I had to be better than the next guy. Now I get sent scripts, and the competition isn't there. There is no edge any more. I'm just not used to my life yet-and haven't been for five lousy years!" He adds: "I don't know what I know any more. I'm lost...
Hasler disputes the contention that most Vatican I bishops went to Rome seeking the infallibility decree. Instead, he asserts, Pius and the bishops supporting him outmaneuvered opponents of infallibility -without ever answering their historical arguments against it-so effectively that the council "degenerated into a ritual, mock discussion." Hasler provides new details on just how the outwardly jovial, accommodating "Pio Nono" plotted to get his infallibility decree...