Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fops & Frauds. At first glance, the play seems all aglitter with drolly prophetic lights. Gaudy gadgets have indeed become household fixtures, and man seems forever on the verge of blowing the top off his accustomed world. But Nabokov has not simply satirized the pursuit of absolute pleasure and absolute power. His text is fretted with his customary puns, double-entendres, and literary allusions. More important, in the play's final scene Nabokov reveals that Waltz's demonic invention, and his successful rise to power, and-for all the reader knows-most of the fools, fops, frauds, pacifists, pederasts...
...GENEROUS MAN, by Reynolds Price. The wild and wandering pursuit of an escaped python through a North Carolina pinewoods provides the epic setting for this perceptive, humorous novel of an adolescent boy's march into manhood...
...abandoned by the evil wife of the governor during a revolution in a legendary kingdom around A.D. 1200. With the baby strapped to her back, Grusha embarks on a series of adventures that include crossing a rotting bridge over a 2,000-ft. gorge with soldiery in hot pursuit, a marriage of inconvenience with a draft dodger, and a confrontation several years later with the real mother, who now wants her child back...
...shocked at such outspoken moral lassitude. Yet I feel only pity for those who engage in this pursuit of "freedom," not realizing that they are undermining the basis of civilization: the family. What these "freedom fighters" advocate (whether or not they realize it) is moral anarchy, which leads to social anarchy and barbarianism...
...captain of a coastal freighter, John (Jarl Kulle) has docked at a Swedish port to pick up a cargo of sand. With two long evenings to kill ashore, he watches his young crewman charging off in pursuit of pleasure and decides to try his own luck with a cafe waitress (Christina Schollin). The girl, Anita, mother of a child born out of wedlock, remembers him only as a drunken lout who was rude to her on another visit two years earlier. Warily she declines his first invitation, and he smugly vows he'll have her; on the second evening...