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...POWER, one finds a revealing analytic perspective on some of the dynamics of that barbarism. Here the fusion of the personal and the political and the creative application of structural analogy would bring Karl Marx himself to orgasm. From Mary Boykin Ches nut, a nineteenth century wife of a southern slaveholder...
Michael Gury seems somewhat stiff in the opening act, perhaps because he is trying to assume the reserved manners of the nineteenth century gentleman. His portrayal of Simon as a greedy, emotionally disturbed young man is otherwise as precise as the script allows. It's bothersome that we're never given more than a simplistic, pseudoFreudian explanation for his yearning to return to mother and childhood. His ambivalent desire for escape is so key to the movement of the play that it should have more solid roots. Ann Varley is wellcast in the part of the young wife. Her Irish...
...punished. As long as he's free, he's free. I saw his being free as perhaps inspiring in others a more critical attitude, an attitude of inspection. It's the same thing with the end of Something Happened, it ends where it ends. It's not like a nineteenth-century novel which in its last few pages tells what happens for the next fifty years in each of the characters' lives...
...Drunkard, after long and inexplicable delays, is finally opening up this week at the Washington St. Opera House in Somerville. This is supposed to be the longest running show in America, and it's an invective about Demon Rum. Sounds like a nineteenth century "Reefer Madness." This is opening up Thursday night. Call 628-1266 for more information...
Like the Chautauqua and Lyceum orators, Pirsig is an inveterate moralist. In common with Emerson and the other nineteenth century American Romantics he bemoans the predicament of manufactured man and extolls "self-reliance" and "gumption" and the kind of knowledge that is not to be found in books but only at the cutting edge of experience. But Pirsig also recognizes that "self-reliance" has become the philosophy of American greed and reaction and that the familiar Romantic exhortations about experience and immediacy do not penetrate very far into technology nor into its scientific underpinning. For him the problem is that...