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Emerson 105 is filled to overflowing during History 1711, "The United States and East Asia," another Fairbank course. Mary Parson '78 said yesterday that large first-day crowds reflected the course's popularity and encouraged even more students to enroll later...
...makes no effort to report the news of what is happening in Britain, let alone the world. It concentrates on sports, gossip about TV stars and sex, mostly sex. Sample headlines: I'LL STILL SHARE A TENT WITH SHARON; GREEN-EYED SEX FIEND IS HUNTED; APACHE STRIP PUTS PARSON ON WARPATH?a story about a male entertainer named Apache who stripped off his clothes while performing at a women's bingo party to raise money to buy a water bed for a priest...
...central problem with Lorenzo Mariani's direction is his mishandling of an obviously talented cast. Both Jonathan Epstein as Morell and Jonathan Emerson as Marchbanks deliver perfectly consistent, self-contained performances; unfortunately, the two characterizations are completely out of synch with each other. Epstein's Parson Morell partakes of the tragic stature of Pastor Manders in Ibsen's Ghosts, a part Epstein played last year. It is a moving, sympathetic portrayal, but its naturalism stands in uneasy contrast to Emerson's frenetic, histrionic, almost self-parodying Marchbanks. As the timid poet, Emerson shrinks, flinches and mugs...
...Bernard Shaw, the poet or idealist changes nothing, not even himself. In Candida, the poet Marchbanks and the preacher/politician Morell--rivals for the protagonist's love--are each immured in a prison of words. Marchbanks, an intruder into Morell's apparently idyllic Victorian home, attacks the vacuity of the parson's Christian Socialist platitudes; but his own endless flights of romanticism are no better. Both forms of verbiage are equally foolish--and equally valid. Neither is, in Auden's words, "a way of happening," let alone an incitement to change...
...Parson Washington...