Word: psychically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...task for mortals. Dreams outlive men, and the imagined glory of "The Cause" has persisted despite the rise of a new generation of killers to fight for it. Taking that dream away from an Irishman--even a State-side cousin like Father Thomas O'Neill--requires major psychic surgery, cutting and tearing away at years of proper and rigid upbringing, decades of instinctive hatred. It is hardly a task that can be accomplished in a day or two--it must take months, even years, before the realization sets in. It is, in fact, a marvelous subject for a book...
...tries hard, has neither Shaffer's command of language nor his ability to make each epigram peculiarly illustrative of some aspect of character; Levin uses witticisms to fill pauses. To be fair, the script contains many very funny lines--assorted theater jokes, ESP jokes (one of the characters is psychic), a few bitchy asides that hit home--and the play succeeds more as a comedy than a thriller, but it is comedy of the most superficial kind. The last scene, which dissolves into a farcical exchange between the two characters left alive, is horribly executed, but suggests that Deathtrap...
...cast cannot redeem. Marian Seldes winces uncomfortably in her pointless role, and Richard Woods cannot enact a plodding, fatuous lawyer without giving a plodding, fatuous performance. Victor Garber coasts fairly pleasantly through his cunning young man role, and Marian Winters twinkles merrily as a psychic spinster, but we can't be allowed to laugh at her performance without another character reminding us that she is "the comedy relief...
...danger here lies in the potential reduction of these new faiths to products of a "profit-oriented culture" such as the psychological theories Cox discusses in the chapter entitled "The Pool of Narcissus: The Psychologizing of Meditation." Discussing the use of terms such as "investment" in people or psychic "dividends" he proceeds to suggest that...
...fuss about electing a mayor? Cambridge's mayor gets to cast the deciding vote on the six-member School Committee, chair the city council, and take home an extra $1000 in pay. He also gets the intangible psychic rewards of being head honcho in Cambridge...