Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...board game is rapidly replacing "Guggenheim" as the favorite pasttime in Hayes-Bick. Called "Ugly," the game was devised by Robert M. Scher '60, after watching a friend play with "pellets and twists...
...play's end Temple Drake begs Nancy's forgiveness. "Believe," says Nancy. "Only God can forgive sin, only God can make sense out of human suffering, just believe." Humbly, Temple Drake prepares "to save my soul, if I have a soul. If there is a God, and if he wants...
True in feeling, Requiem is sometimes hollow in logic. Temple's behavior is baffling except in terms of innate depravity. Nancy's sinner-into-saint switch is an abuse of poetic license. But to a theater often governed by the spirit of commerce, Faulkner has brought a play whose commerce is solely with the human spirit in its torment, in its aspirations, and in its vagrant moments of nobility...
...moment of truth for these characters sadly shatters the mythic mood of the play. When the bandit is revealed as a braggart, the samurai as a snuffling coward and his wife as a trollop, the Kanins' script, unlike the film, fumbles away the Swiftian savagery of Akutagawa for something close to farce. What Akutagawa intended as the subtle shadow play of appearance and reality becomes, in the wigmaker's summing up, little more than an optical illusion: "Truth is a firefly...
Kaleidoscope (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Arthur Kennedy as a newsman turned phony evangelist, in Ben Hecht's play The Third Commandment...