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Hedda Gabler has become for actresses what Hamlet has always been for actors. If Hamlet is the classic male neurotic-the man who cannot act-Hedda is the classic female neurotic-the woman who cannot feel. With both roles, the performer does not so much assume a part as submit...
WHAT DOES Chekhov give us that is positive? Of course, he hardly owes us anything positive. But I think that, like Johnson, he places great value on getting the mind off the mind through work. Johnson used to quote Burton, "Be not idle, be not solitary," and write to himself...
Disastrous Marriage. The Russell-United Artists version of the truth, largely supported by scholars, is that Tchaikovsky's homosexuality caused him ceaseless anguish and prevented the consummation of any close relationships with women. One scene in Russell's The Lonely Heart shows Tchaikovsky and the rich dilettante Vladimir...
At first glance, the goals of Scientology appear very noble-the end of war, poverty, crime, insanity, and so on. Particularly appealing to many people is Hubbard's criticism of our cultural emphasis on good-evil, right-wrong duality. He advocates a view of any aberration as a case of...
Why should anyone pay attention to this neurotic, preaching, overreaching relic of the '20s? Because, along with his thousand faults, Lawrence had a single saving virtue: genius. It was a quicksilver quality that the writer himself could never quite consolidate, and the adapters of Women in Love can hardly...