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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...
General Ches nut said many people were light hearted at the ruin of the great slave owners. He quoted some one: 'They will have no Negroes now to lord it over! They can swell and peacock about and tyrannize now over only a small parcel of women and children, those only who are their very own family...
...nut? By no means. An eccentric? Certainly. Like Peter de Labigarre, who fled the French Revolution to the U.S., built the Chateau de Tivoli where the village now stands and planned a Utopian commune there, Broadmoore is a refugee-not from revolution but from what he regards as the all-pervasive standardization of American life. "I like to imagine that I am living in the 19th century," he told TIME'S Eileen Shields. "I call it an experiment. I am capable of discoursing in modern terms. But as soon as I am alone, I revert to my imagination, which...
What saves it, aside from good performances by Burt Reynolds and a thundering herd of supporting grotesques, is, of all things, a tough, tiny nut of valid social criticism...
Happy Days is a two-act, two-character play by Samuel Beckett that proves to be the toughest nut that the Summer School Repertory Theater has tried to crack all season. Joanne Hamlin plays the eternally-optimistic Winnie in what turns out to be a tour de force performance. Throughout the show Hamlin, who has about 95 per cent of all the spoken lines in the play, is buried in a mound of sand, and it is a wonder she can carry her own enthusiasm let alone Winnie's. Despite Hamlin's excellent job, the show is not all that...