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Died. Dr. Eric Berne, 60, psychiatrist and author of Games People Play; of a heart attack; in Monterey, Calif. As a group therapist, he observed that people acted and reacted in repetitious, tightly defined ritual "games." After further casework and analysis buttressed his findings, he invented breezy names (Frigid Woman; Now I've Got You, You Son of a Bitch; I'm Only Trying to Help You) and published Games in 1964. Intended for therapists, the book scored a sales blitz (650,000 hardcover, 2,000,000 paperback). It also attracted criticism from Berne's colleagues...
...creative consciousness: toward massed composition, flat surface, simplified color and, above all, a mood of subtly altered consciousness, which from then on became a major Matisse characteristic. He turns the viewer on to an exaltation, whether ice-cool or abandoned, like the joyful seriousness that perfused public ritual in classical Greece. The result is that "nearly religious feeling" that Matisse said he had toward life...
Senclick explains his Oedipus best by calling it a ritual. It is somewhat like Shakesepare's The Winter's Tale as a celebration of natural harmony and order, and an acceptance of human imperfection. Senclick at times seems possessed by these imperfections...
...forms Senelick has chosen to convey ritual are highly derivative: he has borrowed Oriental Kabuki gestures for Oedipus and locasta, and this works very well, stylizing their "act" of semi-divinity almost to satire. For the Chorus he has assimilated the chanting and stick-beating rhythms of the Open Theater, the serpentine body piles of the Living Theater, and the copulation mime of Marat/Sade. All are dramatically sound, but one is aware of their unoriginality...
Roger was still there for the Coda; when the darkness of city life re-emerged as meth-amphetamine. It was a ritual victory for plastic and concrete, and Roger, after getting ripped-off and beat up, came back East. But since it all happens about a year late in Cambridge, he was just in time for the capitulation of Cambridge Hippic. He was all set, in a sense. Roger probably would not think of it in these terms. This is overview, and what Roger knows about his life now is what he new then: that he has to stay alive...