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ROCKABY by Samuel Beckett...
...Samuel Beckett is the victim of a bum rap. Everything that lends him academic eminence-the 1969 Nobel Prize, the scholarly exegeses of his plays and novels, even the famous dust-jacket photograph from which he stares like an eagle just slightly startled to find himself prematurely taxidermized-has also conspired to suggest that his plays have a savor too rarefied for the palates of most theatergoing mortals. It is true that in writing, staging and performance, his plays are ethereal, austere, elegiac, pioneering a dramatic form that whittles existence into essence. But this is to say only that Beckett...
Just now the center of the Beckett universe is a pair of off-Broadway houses on Manhattan's 42nd Street. In the Harold Clurman Theater, a trio of Beckett skits has been playing since June. And last week, at the newly named Samuel Beckett Theater next door, English Actress Billie Whitelaw opened in two short plays and a reading of the Beckett short story Enough...
...playwright's words, Traveler is "about a brilliant surgeon, whose intelligence is not enough to save him. Samuel Carter seems to have it all--a beautiful wife, a bright little boy and a dazzling career--but he is a traveler in the dark." Unfortunately, both the bitterness and the self-righteousness of this 40-year-old cynic prove unbearable. Sam preaches his doctrine of atheism and the supremacy of intelligence with more offensive zeal than the loudest Moral Majority proselytizer. Told for so long about his brilliance, Sam comes to believe that he does, in fact, know the truth about...
...committee will look at options other than Proposal 18 and will compile academic data for both athletes and non athletes in hopes of changing the regulations, Samuel Meyers, NAFEO president, said yesterday...