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...Kalahari Desert in Africa. He distrusts a great deal of previous scientific writings and finds much of the literature "superficially impressive but historically impossible." Ever on his guard against "the dangers of behavioral biology," he includes an encapsulated history of the misuse of "science" to justify social aims--nineteenth century racial theories, the Nazis' view of the Jews as genetically interior, and Shockleyian notions about the inherent intellectual superiority of some people over others...
...hyperactive of audience members to sleep. Not only is the production hampered by its length, but also most of the staging proves too distracting for the weak company to support. Noticeably lacking are introductory overtures before either of the acts. Ordinarily such music helps the audience enter into a nineteenth-century frame of mind. Instead, after a brief warm-up, the opera begins with a riotous choral entrance...
RESEMBLING NOTHING so much as Little Women gone wild, A Bloodsmoor Romance leads readers on a merry six hundred page chase after five nineteenth century sisters as they gallivant from their ancestral Bloodsmoor Valley to the Broadway stage, the lawless West the spirit world and back again. Written as a parody of a romance, Joyce Carol Oates latest novel excels in the form it spoofs. True to convention a prim but often hyperbolic narrator tells of shocking year undeniably romantic escapades with an unabashed use of italics and the results are hilarious...
...serious core, A Bloodsmoor Romance deals with repression and release. Oates focuses on the restrictions on women's physical natures during the late nineteenth century, epitomized by the corsets which hindered breathing and circulation. In the Bloodsmoor Valley wooing lovers never elude the watchful eyes of chaperones 25 yards away and our narrator lauds Constance Phillippa about to be married because she "was never in that unfortunate state termed nudity" and even bathed lightly attired. Despite the levity inherent in exaggeration the horror comes through in casual accounts of women who have had their lower ribs removed for more fashionable...
...lifestyle is typical for residents of East Cambridge, the neighborhood where European immigrants have settled since the nineteenth century. And it is this Old World way of life, of ethnic values and strong family ties that "Easties" are fighting to preserve from threatening contemporary changes...