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...rumpled clothes, he walks with a schoolmaster stoop, chain-smokes and has a disarmingly direct way of tackling almost anything. Four years ago, he tutored pupils in an antipoverty program in Roxbury, Mass.; in the same year, he worked with migrant labor gangs in a New England apple orchard...
...feel like a reverent tourist at Lexington and Concord or the Statue of Liberty. At the end of the dirt road which climbs about a mile through the woods toward the advertised cabin, there is still another engraved plaque. There, through a hedge and over another bank, an orchard of dwarf apple trees conceals (except from the annual busloads of DAR chapters and Leagues of Women Voters) the much announced Frost Cabin-unpainted, compact, reassuringly meager. Inside, the cabin is absolutely sparse but quite complete; a sitting room with fireplace and bookshelves, a tiny kitchen with saucepans and brillo pads...
EACH PLAY has a symbol of illusory release-the seagull, Moscow, the cherry orchard-which, rather than liberating energies, mercilessly turns them inward, thrusts them down, exhausts hope into depression. Every character wants to move, wants to love, to feel intense, gregarious, and extroverted, immediately alive. Yet no one moves, love fails, every play ends problematically. We see everyone...
...itself, and which, if clung to stupidly as a panacea (no matter how elaborated), would seize the spirit, plunge it into a useless, deadening cycle of paroxysm and exhaustion, ending in the destruction of the person rather than the renovation of society. Bernard Shaw took Ania from The Cherry Orchard, renamed her Ellic Dunn, placed her in a crazy house of supine elegance and overheated, strangling dreams, and showed that Heartbreak House, or cultured, leisured Europe before the War, would split up on the rocks of apocalyptic change. That bitter play, Shaw's greatest, ends with the romantics and neurotic...
...THEY'RE nearing the gate... They're at the post... They're in the gate... They're off! And it's Some Kinda George in the lead, followed by Windon Tide, Heaven Again third, Bail Me Out fourth, then it's Robert Kope, followed by Pippin Orchard, followed by... They're turning into the stretch... They're into the stretch. And it's Windon Tide, then Some Kinda George.... They're battling it out. And it's Some Kinda George by a neck...