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...child to the motherhood of the jungle. The pristine Tarzan of the screen who hated all white men-although his name, in Burroughswahili, meant white (tar) man (zan)-is now the champion of modern medical science. Tarzan 1958 knows a simple defense against the slings and arrows of mumbo jumbo. His prescription: "Take pill quick...
Virginia undergoes before our eyes a sort of psychoanalysis, though there is fortunately none of the professional mumbo-jumbo that normally accompanies such matters. Through this process Virginia manages to exorcise the mental tormentors and thoughts of suicide, until she can at the end rejoice, "It is pretty here!" Thus, the title of the play not only designates its physical locale but also symbolizes the catharsis of Virginia's crowded, confused mind...
...plebiscite is the democratic mumbo jumbo of the modern dictator. Last week 40-year-old Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser triumphantly ran off a plebiscite ratifying his power over two ancient countries, then stepped to his Cairo balcony and delivered his inaugural address to half a million screaming schoolchildren. "O youth," he shouted, "the United Arab Republic has come into being." The merger of Egypt and Syria, he said, now becomes "the basis of Arab union." "Mabrouk Gamal-Congratulations, Gamal," shrieked the schoolkids. Rockets burst overhead, parachuting small Egyptian and Syrian flags down on their heads. Egypt's top singer...
...Mumbo, Jumbo & Bumbo. Other local poets-Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Junk Man's Obligate) and Kenneth Patchen (Hurrah for Anything), et al.-have moved into the jazz clubs. "All these Kenneths," comments Kenneth Rexroth, "sound a little like Mumbo, Jumbo and Bumbo, each the biggest elephant in the world...
...epilogue, in fact, is the best part of the Tufts show. Written in macaronic Latin, it is the classic take-off on pompous academic ceremony and all its mumbo-jumbo. In it Argan himself passes an oral examination and becomes a doctor. The charlatanism of the whole proceeding is epitomized in the fact that, no matter what illness Argan is asked to prescribe for, his answer (in dog-Latin) is always, "Give an enema, let blood, then purge." The singing and dancing, and the comical masks and over-sized enemas contribute much to the total effect...