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Race Against Time. The trapped middle-ager is introspective, resigned, and rebellious all at the same time. Modern literature and drama vividly depict his psychic desperation, from Bellow's Herzog to Miller's After the Fall, from Albee's Virginia Woolf to Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence, from the novels of John Marquand to the novels of John O'Hara. John Cheever, who writes of middle age with autumnal sadness, is its prose laureate. In O Youth and Beauty!, he tells of the ritual of Cash Bentley, a former track star turned 40 who, when...
...Virginia Woolf. The wife feels neglected, the husband feels nagged, both feel thoroughly bored with each other. According to Dr. Masters and Psychologist Johnson in Human Sexual Response, there is a marked flagging of male potency in the 40s, but it is not so much physical as psychic impotence...
Lack of privacy is not calculable in terms of physical space only. In a new book, The Hidden Dimension, Anthropologist Edward Hall points out that people and animals have a sense of psychic space, which differs from race to race, from species to species. Americans waiting for a bus will automatically space themselves several feet apart; Arabs will cluster. In studies conducted on animals, Hall notes that a population crisis occurs when this sense of psychic space is invaded by overcrowding. The birth rate drops and animals die by the score-apparently from stress alone. Something equivalent, suggests Hall, could...
These playwrights tend to examine the metaphysical at the expense of the physical, to probe inner psychic space and ignore outer social space. There is little happiness, less love and no hint of the pleasures of existence in these plays. But have all the juices and joys of life dried up? Scarcely. Since these authors' characters are purposely distorted and dematerialized, one cannot identify with them any more than a man can identify with his own X rays. Shakespeare said that all the world's a stage, and he made his stage all the world. With skeletal casts...
There weren't but a dozen of these psychic cripples in the building when the power failed, but more trickled into the Yard at a steady rate. And the oddest thing. When they found out the Library was closed, it seemed to destroy their wills. They just sat down on the grass. By dark there were more than a hundred, scattered across the lawn like so many pigeons. Eventually a cop had to come and make them leave...