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Students aren't the only ones affected by the tense atmosphere of Reading Period. s Although exams come and go, twinges of exam anxiety can apparently recur indefinitely...
...violates the body and desecrates the spirit at the same time. Despite its manifest ugliness, it makes a powerful subject for a play, since any bruising or brutal confrontation between two or more human beings is the atavistic fuel of drama. Indeed, plays with rape as a central motif recur in theatrical literature. Perhaps the most notable is Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, in which the heroine-victim, Lavinia, has her tongue cut out and her hands cut off. She secures her revenge when she reveals her rapists' identities by scratching their names in sand...
During the Zavidovo visit, Brezhnev's vulnerability allowed a human contact that was not to recur. One afternoon I returned to my villa and found hunting attire, an elegant, military-looking olive drab, with high boots, for which I am unlikely to have any future use. Brezhnev, similarly attired, collected me in a jeep. I hate the killing of animals for sport, but Brezhnev said some wild boars had already been earmarked for me. Given my marksmanship, I replied, the cause of death would have to be heart failure. Still, I would be willing to go along...
Despite the incomplete sketching of Dr. Livingstone's character, she has the honor of delivering the play's opening speech--which, laden with dreadfully kitschy symbolism, has the effect of striking a desperately false note. Such notes recur, though not at all frequently, and most are sounded by Dr. Livingstone. Her chain-smoking, which she explains as an obsession taken on when her mother died to replace her former obsession with that daunting figure, is unattractive, intrusive and psychologically simple-minded...
Harold Prince and Stephen Sondheim seem to have been born middleaged. Rue, disenchantment, a kind of middle-aged tristesse recur in their collaborations. In the most brilliant of them. Company and Follies, melancholia about marriage and success was imminent but airborne; in Merrily We Roll Along it falls with the thud of a foregone conclusion...