Word: prisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jazz tapes to the city's hep older citizens. The Shah of Iran has been given his matched set of porcelain plates with splendid Winslow Homer paintings on them. There are books on Audubon and Thoreau yet to be distributed along the President's route; the Steuben prism that focuses its light on a golden eagle will be presented to King Khalid, an avid falconer, in Saudi Arabia...
...crossed too many borders to have been a winner in the geopolitics of the Nobel Prize. Yet he gave a prize greater than any he might have received: his challenging, intricate fiction, which miraculously demonstrates that art is not a mirror held up to na ture, but rather a prism that refracts blinding reality into rainbows of wisdom and feeling...
...inflexible social institution, including much more than bearing children. Since the first stirrings of the patriarchal system, she says, women have been valued only by the number of children--particularly sons--they have borne, and barren women have been deigned purposeless. Women are seen through a patriarchal prism; as mothers and lovers, they are trapped by self-fulfilling role patterns. Daughters grow up to become mothers, forced to supply all the emotional support their children will receive, unable to relate on an individual, unstandardized level to the rest of the world...
Compare this with the sensitively understated Gilman as prim Miss Prism, Cecily's spinster governess. Severe in a herringbone suit, her frizzy yellow hair drawn back tightly in a bun, Gilman stands in her characteristic pose, hands clasped in front of her, and expresses dismay, skepticism and repressed lust with utter conviction...
Algernon's clipped witticisms and Miss Prism's agonized confrontation with her own carelessness are the two high points of this production. But its real star is Joe Mobilia's sets, whose every detail--from the porcelain tea service to the yellow silk upholstered sofa--elegantly evokes late victorian decadence...