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...question to bed or not to bed simply lacks sufficient emotional heat for all the space he gives it. Frederic's prolonged indecision is belabored until it becomes merely academic. The camera does all the stripping Frederic would like to do, yet neither ventures out of the abstract realm of suggestion. Nothing ever happens: Rohmer registers only the private reverberations of Frederic's desire...
...institutional extinction. Harvard's mode of instruction may be outdated; its sexist and elitist values are outdated. The answer is to develop a broader undergraduate experience more is keeping with the complexity and instability of American life, not a more specialized experience within a narrow by defined academic realm...
...fascinating to see how effectively Osborne can make use of what is very close to improvisational theater, for that is the realm into which his play falls. A Sense of Detachment is in many ways a mischievous experiment in audience exploitation. Coursing through his apparently aimless and formless play is Osborne's conviction that man, in his superficial and petty preoccupation with dross, is forgetting how to love...
...nervous habits, the reader has to "put on spectacles" (and, with rare exceptions, defective in such natural endowments, he does wear spectacles) to reduce the blur which contemplation of the world produces. In literature there is an order which is absent elsewhere; in the poem, stanzas erect an imagined realm exclusive of chaos. The reader, whose desperate activities I've compared to those of an addict, turns to the Cantos with regret; he would rather read the measured lines of Pushkin...
...what is observable against what is real. This is the essence of the reader's activity: to establish relations between the dissonant elements of consciousness. And this is the reader's advantage as well; because the labor he has chosen is alienated and superfluous, because he inhabits a speculative realm, his life is devoted to those works which secure his own mind in the world, through the revelation of resemblances...