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...There will be time, there will be time/ To prepare a face to meet the fac es that you meet." So wrote T.S. Eliot in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock...
...bare and the actors use practically no props. The costume is white-collar Prufrock. With the exception of K. and the fatherfigure, all the other roles are interchangeable. The actors narrate in turn, take on the several voices of conscience and temptation, counsel marriage, art, faith or rebellion. The scenes interrupt and comment on each other. Adaptations from the short stories and novels are intercepted by reflections from the diaries and the famous Letter to his Father. Every moment repeats and plays on the basic pattern of a mind plotting its own victimization...
...Faculty answered J. Alfred Prufrock's question yesterday spending two hours in polite discussion after convening over tea and cookies in the Faculty Room of University Hall. No motions were put forward, none passed, but the Faculty members got their choice of tea or coffee along with baked goods for half an hour before settling down to business...
...moment when pop culture, nourished by everything from hard rock to Prufrock, stood on a tiptoe of expectation. Could the eclectic age -borrowing everywhere from the Bible to Porgy and Bess, from Beethoven to the world of Hair, from the symbolic body and blood of Christ to sheerest humanism-shape an enduring musical tribute to human failure and aspiration, to divine inspiration and its loss...
...over the years, then, is a pile-up of spirits and vibrations-thought-bubbles stacked to the ceilings. For Emerson and Thorean and the luminaries of four centuries not only slept here, but studied and wrote in these rooms. (Thomas Sterns Eliot wrote The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock the winter of 1909, his senior year...