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...painlessly introduced literally thousands of hard-to-impress gut-seekers and science concentrators to Homer's muse and the other folk tales studied in the course. Many of them seem
...painlessly introduced literally thousands of hard-to-impress gut-seekers and science concentrators to Homer's muse and the other folk tales studied in the course. Many of them seem
...myself, to be a gentleman, to be a success. Several different things, it turned out." Author John Casey also had his feet set upon the rungs to Eastern establishment success: St. Albans School in Washington; Harvard, class of '62; Harvard Law School. But somewhere along the way a muse appeared and made off with Casey's torts and breaches. He has been a writer ever since. And a succès, of some esteem, since his first novel, An American Romance, came out two years...
Friel uses faith healing as a resonant metaphor of the artist and his gift, the mystery of how the muse inspires, deserts and sometimes destroys its own. Friel leaves the subject as murky as he found it, but his actors are luminous. Returning to Broadway after 32 years, Mason is a necromancer at his craft. His real-life wife, Clarissa Kaye, seems like a Mother Courage on loan, and Donnelly is a mischievous imp dressed in the motley philosophy of show biz. Faith healers...
What of Ann Whitefield (Ann Sachs), the girl to whom Jack must succumb even though he pursues his bachelor freedom across all of Europe in a touring car? She must be as delectable as strawberries and cream, a muse of delight, Goethe's "eternal feminine" luring men on. Sachs makes her predatory, poised like a pelican about to dive-bomb a poor fish. And Philip Bosco as the Devil displays an unctuous complacency that defeats the role...