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...MISER. Robert Symonds gives his best performance yet with the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater as the mock hero of Moliere's comedy. Skittering about like a bespectacled magpie, his Harpagon is a sprite of the cashbox, a stringy-haired witch of usury. To see him is a pleasure. To see him undone is a delight...
Nabokov sums up these amorous doings in a mock dust-jacket blurb that closes Ada by describing only the book's most superficial aspects. Long before he gets around to that, though, a suspicion has set in that the surface love story is as different from the real Ada as a bicycle reflector is from a faceted ruby. More even than Lolita and Pale Fire, Ada is studded with assaults and asides directed at literary forms, figures and fashions. Along with its masquerade...
...street--mostly black children and teen-agers. The brass instruments and little gold letters on the parade hats glistened in the bright sunshine. They seemed very jolly, and I guessed everyone had been tanking up in Buster's for a good while. Emanuel Paul grinned with a look of mock surprise when he recognized...
Though barely two months have elapsed since the successful flight of Apollo 9, the U.S. is poised for yet another space epic. At Cape Kennedy last week, a giant Saturn 5 stood on Pad 39B, and an astronaut crew and NASA technicians methodically ran through a mock countdown in preparation for the launch of Apollo...
When a tragic hero is blinded, he assumes the grandeur of Oedipus; when a comic hero is blinded, he becomes as ludicrous as a mole. Moliere, the most serious writer of comedy who ever lived, took just such a blind mole and made him the mock hero of The Miser. Harpagon (Robert Symonds) has a singular obsession-money. Like most obsessions, it is not magnificent but malignant. It allows the great 17th century French dramatist to make a central moral point-that a sin is called deadly because it deadens. Harpagon is blind to his children's hope...