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...result is "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do" (589 pp., $10), which Pantheon published this week. "Working" is Terkel's third book of interviews on a theme. His first, "Division Street: America" (1967) was, he says, "a report from an American village, Chicago," modeled after Jan Myrdal's "Report From a Chinese Village," which Pantheon published several years earlier. His second interview book, "Hard Times" (1970), was an oral history of the Depression...
...Medea--recently scrapped because of lack of interest--and a Winthrop House production of The Plain Dealer, the other House selections, Leverett's Applause and Kirkland's Hay Fever, are marked by unusual frivolity. Add to these plays the usual Hasty Pudding show (this year reincarnated as Keep Your Pantheon) and the semiannual Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and we have what someone once called the triumph of sugar over diabetes. But what of the Loeb Mainstage? After an interesting start with Harlem in the Evening, a play with music based on the works of Langston Hughes, they have now planned...
Moreover, although he assails other people's rigidity, Miller severely circumscribes his polytheism by limiting it to the Greek pantheon "simply because," he explains, "willy-nilly, we are Occidental men and women." He fails to consider the psychological utility, for instance, of the richly nuanced popular theology of Roman Catholicism, beneath whose dogma, he concedes grudgingly, may lurk "all the gods and goddesses of the ancient world."* The basic problem of Miller's book is that he has tossed up as a clay pigeon a monotheism that is an arid and abstract doctrine rather than the complex...
Keep Your Pantheon. Love among the ruins. 7:30 at the Hasty Pudding Club...
Keep Your Pantheon is a German-expressionist investigation into the theories of R.D. Laing, and the schizophrenia inherent in strivings for spiritual rebirth--"Changing the pantheon," as the somewhat clumsy translation has it. At the Hasty Pudding Club...