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...course of intensive analysis of these women, Fisher sought out any possible correlation between a woman's past history, anxieties, interests, tastes, and political, social, and moral attitudes, and her sexual preferences and orgasmic capacity. Moving from physiology to the more obscure realm of psychology, Fisher had to handle a far greater number of variables, and variables of a less measurable sort, than did Masters and Johnson. His findings are, as one would expect, much less conclusive...
...worst thing you can say about Marcel Ophuls is that whatever his politics, artistically he is a bourgeois humanist--mawkish, inconclusive, unclear, visually universalizing the particular. At the same time, his films show the power of that bourgeois humanism to move into an extra-political realm in which each person must ask himself how he would respond in the same situation of political and moral crisis...
...exists beyond political, social and linguistic boundaries. If the term metaphysical has any validity at all (and I believe it does) then it must truly exist to describe this bond. What Marcel Ophuls can do as well as almost anyone else is to touch with power and grace the realm in which all human beings are very much alike...
Pirandello's Emperor Henry IV, now at the Schubert Theater with Rex Harrison in the starring role, is perhaps not as deep as it would like to be. Neither Harrison's intense acting nor the majestic stage set can lift the dialogue from the realm of the obvious (or the too ambiguous, which sometimes comes to the same thing). The play works best when it attempts to be comic; when the hero lets loose with one of his philosophical outbursts, the audience tends to shuffle its feet. But there is little time to get bored with such a short production...
...still effective, to my mind, not because it makes an extra person but because the living room filled with lively figures extends Wyke's character into the complex fantasy of his fiction. Like Wyke's books, the automata are by no means puerile, though both belong to the realm of extended childhood...