Word: pastorale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN THE FIRST American patriots were driven to rhetorical and physical attacks on their colonial lords, they did not do so happily. Their thoughts were not the good-natured, piccolo-accompanied, complaints of "taxation without representation" as advertised by subsequent children's textbooks. Instead, the American grievances with England were...
Who are the tenants? According to the Najar brothers, they are people who are edging into their 50s. For them, the pastoral pleasures of estate living have lost their appeal, creating a new leisure class: the unlanded gentry. One building boasts an airline owner, three movie stars and a scattering...
The work of "these chemists who pile up little dots," as Gauguin contemptuously named the pointillists, was to the 1890s what constructivism would be to the 1920s: the house style of Utopian socialism in its various forms. Pissarro was a fervent anarchist, and his dot-crusted scenes of idyllic rural...
I first became aware of faculty dissatisfaction with ART last fall during the run of Andrei Belgrader's farcical production of As You Like It. I had reviewed the show favorably--it seemed to poke fun at pastoral conventions no one today can stomach, in the same spirit Shakespeare had...
I do not mean to suggest that the academic vocation precludes any enjoyment of live theater, or any discernment about it. Some of the best theater critics work at universities, and many faculty members here provide both the ART and undergraduate theater with invaluable encouragement. But there is a hidden...