Word: pedersens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lars Pedersen...
Oates is seldom mentioned in the list of activist women writers, but one of her favorite themes is how women fall apart through marriage and dependence on a man. Some are destroyed, like Dr. Pedersen's alcoholic wife in Wonderland. Others-like Loretta in them-survive and grow tougher. Elena leaves her furniture and furs to take responsiblity for her own life. But on the book's last page she fecklessly returns to Morrissey, just as he seems to have got clear of their disastrous affair and adjusted himself to his marriage. Is she a temptress, a wanton...
Vogel begins as Jesse Harte, the sole survivor of one of those Christmas family massacres in which the unemployed father shoots his wife and children and then takes his own life. He is adopted by Dr and Mrs. Pedersen of Lockport, N.Y., and assumes their name. The doctor is a Hegelian on wheels who, in his zeal for personal accomplishment, conducts dinnertime inquisitions, getting progress reports and dishing out praise and censure to his family...
...truth, Pedersen is a monstrous hypocrite who takes his ease with morphine. His wife, outwardly a model hausfrau, requires large doses of alcohol to get through each day. His daughter is a bloated math prodigy, compulsively fueled with candy bars. Jesse works hard to create himself in the image of the public Pedersen. But when he proves insufficiently loyal to the doctor's impossible standards, he is cast...
...overcome this difficulty. But Boorstin's incantatory approach more than compensated. The first scene opened after a long, disoriented period of darkness during which three sprites, among them Ariel, introduced the audience to the magical qualities of their island world. The sprites-Ben Fitzgerald, Anne Pedersen, and Elin Diamond as Ariel-were able to animate the play's environment as they materialized out of, and disappeared into, the surrounding scenery throughout the drama's unwinding...