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What is most annoying about Lerner's adaptation is its complete lack of a moral sense. Certainly Nabokov's book wasn't written to make parents more vigilant in bringing up their children, but there is a real feeling that what Humbert has done is wrong, that he has destroyed...

Author: By Richard Bowker, | Title: Theatre L'olita, My Love at the Shubert | 3/24/1971 | See Source »

The resulting work- From Here to Eternity- was considered by Mailer to be the best post-war American novel; it is also one of the best novels of any time and country dealing with military life. Its virtues are its breadth, its honesty, and its passion. Jones was a dogface...

Author: By Michael Sracow, | Title: Books The Merry Month of May | 3/16/1971 | See Source »

The alumni, on the other hand, oppose equal sex admissions for more sentimental reasons. Somehow it just wouldn't sound right to sing "Ten thousand men and women of Harvard," Alumni, especially the older ones (who often happen to be the more generous ones) look back with pride upon the...

Author: By Margaret R. Hornblower, | Title: Merger: Last Poker Game | 3/16/1971 | See Source »

WHEN INGRID gets into the sex action too the Bauers destroy the basis of the young couple's relationship, which is the metaphysical conventions of humanist love: "trust," "belief," "basic human goodness," sentimental associations, and other banalities. In trying to understand and participate, the innocents are seduced in over their...

Author: By Jim Crawford, | Title: Radical Film Duet for Cannibals at the Central Square Theatre | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

A sentimental Jew, Goldberg (Robert Symonds), and a defrocked Irish priest, McCann (John Markins), come to get Stanley. They riddle him with a barrage of non sequiturs, lobotomize his mind, and since he can only make horrible animal noises at the end of the play, there is a suggestion that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Spirited Skull-Puzzler | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

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