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...MOST successful dance was "Within Bounds", choreographed by Bill Evans, add performed by Evans and Reuben James Edinger. Movement was purposely trapped to indicate the state of mind of the two men, one of whom was overcome by insanity, the other by technological regimentation. The music moved like the calculations of a computer, goading the men, who had previously only glanced nervously at each other, into a silent and desperate combat to save themselves. As they finally began to make peace with each other, the music picked up again, overcoming them. It was the only instance where the dancers touched...
Also: George W. Pigman III of Currier House and New Orleans, La.; George Putnam III of Lowell House and Manchester; Michael B. Reuben of Quincy House and Oakbrook, III.; James H. Rogers Jr. of Dudley House and Hartsville, N.C.; Michael C. Ross of Leverett House and Albuquerque, N.M.; David A. Schuldberg of Dudley House and Seattle, Wash.; and, Mark Schultz of Mather House and Allentown...
Notable is a section that takes place not long before Reuben Sledge goes down into The City. Life gradually drags him into total withdrawal: he spends day after day festering alone in bed, drawing into himself, utterly isolated in a concrete cellar room. He reads a lot of books: they depress him, increase his loneliness. He stops reading, and as he struggles to hang on to his sanity he becomes excruciatingly familiar with every individual cement block in the cell. Fighting to keep from fading entirely to within his own head, his lunge at reality turns to memorizing each idiosyncrasy...
...agrarian Midwest. His lack of urbanity is replaced by a prodigious experience: we believe that he cannot imagine people really talking any other way than without pretense. With a natural sense of rough, monotonal dialogue and plodding, deadpan humor, he can do some amazing things. At one point Reuben is looking for work. He sees a want ad for a job as a farm hand, and goes to visit the old farmer at his place, who has told him over the phone that he had better know something about nails, because he's got some new ones that are "eight...
...novel so full of stark sillouettes it is too bad when the lucidity breaks down. There are some things that Rhodes cannot communicate: Reuben himself tells us that he is not altogether sure what finally got him out of The City, into the "finished, unfinished position" at which he finds himself when the book ends. He thinks that it has something to do with his sister Nellie, but there seems to be an emotion here that is too powerful and complex for him to convey: the isolation he laments throughout the novel finally cuts him off from the reader. There...