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Margaret Drabble is a presumably emancipated young Englishwoman in a presumably emancipated world. But her stories-at 30, she has written five brilliantly uneven novels-return atavistically to the primal theme. The difference is, society no longer really punishes the girls who dare to. They do the job themselves, wryly, with masochistic lashes of good old late-20th-century guilt...
...often has a therapeutic effect. When he played for the children of a school for the deaf in Los Angeles, they reacted with smiles, laughter and expressions of awe, calling him back for two encores. In ways that are not fully understood by doctors, the emotional response to his primal sounds-the musical equivalent of finger painting-has even aided retarded children in learning to sing...
Ploy No. 4: "You made me do it." Feuer sees terrorism as the natural climax to student movements, since after all what Freud's "primal sons" want to do to Father is symbolically kill him. In Feuer's version of history, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which precipitated World War I, reads like this: the young Bosnian student Gavrilo Princip "finally achieved his place as a father-destroyer . . . even though it also meant the destruction of himself and the maiming of European civilization...
...workshop activities are as much anthropologic as choreographic. Influenced by the "structuralist" ideas of Claude Levi-Strauss, Halprin believes that a society's myths, or basic beliefs, are as fundamental to its form as its language. Even modern men are driven by such primal instincts as incest, murder, sacrifice and cannibalism, although such drives are almost entirely submerged by the character of urban life. By encouraging her audiences to act out their anxieties in terms of free-moving myths, Halprin is providing not only a therapeutic outlet but an artistic one as well. "The central idea of every evening...
...painted, for he re-enacted, so to speak, the first chapters of Genesis. At first, he covered his canvas with spots, drips and washes. Then from this primordial chaos, he created an ordered series of lines, and sketched in sun-and moonlike heads to represent the first two primal people. Poet André Breton, spiritual spokesman for surrealism, once called Miró "the most surrealist of us all." It is a title that he himself feels he has outgrown. "I am a free man, I hate labels," he protests. "I am not a cyclist with a number on my back...