Word: rage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another good performance comes from Michael Ehrhardt, who plays Cliff Lewis, the "no man's land" in the war between Jimmy and Alison. Part of Ehrhardt's work was done for him by the script--he need only speak his lines and let the other characters rage against him to be effectively lovable. Happily, Ehrhardt does more. He plays Jimmy's punching bag with a surprising kindness, and his few moments of anger are that much more convincing...
...senses that he is watching a man hiding from the beast in himself. James Earl Jones can be as quiet as an extinct volcano one moment, and spewing emotional lava across a stage the next. With some actors, words clothe feelings; with Jones, feelings unclothe words so that joy, rage, wonder and sadness radiate nakedly through the theater...
...scientific" test after another was devised to prove the inferiority of colored races. First, phrenology, or the study of skulls, was the rage. Enthusiasts claimed that the bigger the brain cavity, the brighter the person. When Negroes and Chinese turned up with huge brains, racists took to measuring noses. The theory was that the lesser races have longer noses-until it was pointed out that Darwin himself had an exceptionally long nose...
...after Wilson had returned to Washington, Secretary of State Robert Lansing went to the White House with a copy of the U.S. Constitution, pointedly read the article on the presidential succession and urged Tumulty and Grayson to declare the President disabled. Red with rage, Tumulty snapped: "He has been too kind, too loyal and wonderful to me to receive such treatment at my hands." Tumulty and Grayson warned Lansing that if anyone tried to remove the President, they would fight him tooth and nail...
...same level. A second surprise is that no cult has gathered since Wallant's death. Ordinarily, the work of a brilliant and relatively unknown writer would, at his death, quickly be walled into a shrine and suffused with critical incense, as happened to Nathanael West. But West raged at chaos, and rage can be read as hate, which is a suitable cult emotion. Wallant's transcendent gift was for compassion, and in his writing compassion is so clear and so strong that no willful misreading can blur it to the cult-currency of hate or despair...