Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barters with the play's narrator for the chance to watch herself relive one day of her life, her twelfth birthday. The experience drains, even tortures her, and she shakes much the way we shiver when watching films of John Kennedy. Not only is Emily helpless to change the past, but her warm memories of childhood are blown cold as she watches her own young ghost let priceless moments lapse unnoticed...
...middle-aged playwright, returns to his Irish homestead to bury his Da, his father. He tries desperately to destroy all his memories of the man, anxious to forget even the happy moments in a frustrating childhood. But hounded by the playwrights' curse, he cannot ignore the voices of the past. Charlie hears the voices so clearly that, as in Our Town, they climb again into their bodies. Soon his Da is smoking in an arm chair, his mother baking in the kitchen, and he, as a teenager, reading at the kitchen table...
Reality assumes wild forms as present and past collide and then split apart like memories bouncing off the walls of the brain. Each scene is Charlie's remembrance of incidents of his youth--his last good book, his first good job, his parents' first and last fight, his first sex. Charlie Now (age 45) and Young Charlie (age 17) waltz together on stage. They bicker. The elder blames the younger for childhood failures and gets taunted in return for his failure in maturity...
...government is telling us that we will never be able to live as well as Americans have in the past. I don't believe it and I don't believe any American does," Reagan told the crowd...
European art of the more or less distant past, be it Dante or Giotto, Proust or Mondrian, cannot be properly appreciated without a great deal of study and contemplation. Harvard undergraduates in general do not think the art important enough to be worth the effort and devote most of their time to economics and biology. The faculty do little to convince them they are wrong...