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...Spanish named California after a mythical medieval paradise, an island in the far West to which the noblest knights would go when they died. For generations since, California has been a glittering piece of ephemera on the western slopes of the farthest mountains. It has been a symbol for all that American society has hoped for and sought after. Californians themselves have been intrigued by the imaginative position of the place in American life. In Americans and the California Dream Kevin Starr tries to study the imaginative life of California in America. Starr, a Californian himself, spent the last five...
...dominate the play. There is nothing wrong with Hilton's approach to the role, but his costuming detracts severely from his credibility. This defect changes the entire emphasis of the play. Normally, Julius Caesar is a drama which builds consistently to Antony's eulogy of Brutus, "This was the noblest Roman of them all". In this performance, though, the action of this play is resolved by Caesar's funeral, and the last two acts become denouement, in which Brutus gets his inevitable punishment. Caesar, not Brutus, is the hero, Brutus, not Caesar, the buffoon...
...height of the 1971 Broadway season, Kalem's satisfaction over his successful trek is a bit diluted by some of the shows he sees. Still, he cannot abandon the belief that theater "is the noblest of arts, a metaphysical ritual, an unbound volume of erotica, a childlike festival of clowns and kings, a never-surfeiting banquet for the eye, the ear and at times the soul...
...time, nostalgia will dim or even erase memories of assassinations, wars, racial hatred and student riots from its vision of the '60s, just as it has long since done away with the slime, the stench and the wanton slaughter of that noblest of human conflicts, World War I. Nostalgia is like Marie Antoinette, who commissioned the finest artists and architects of France to build eight picturesque peasant farms beside her Petit Trianon. They were perfect-right down to porcelain vases from Sevres used for milking the cows. Nostalgia selects only what is agreeable, and even that it distorts...
...extent, man has already altered himself and his planet. Scientists can only guess at the genetic toll from radioactive fallout, chemical contamination and other assaults on the environment. Even man's noblest impulses are apt to offend against nature. While improved medical care assures the survival and reproduction of those with genetically caused mental and physical defects, it also ensures that an increasingly larger percentage of the population will be heir to these illnesses in years to come. Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky succinctly expresses the ethical dilemma. "If we enable the weak and the deformed to live and to propagate their...