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That description could serve the author of these tales as well. After blastoff, the fictional narrator who has combined the "televisualized" Freud, the tin-pan Trotsky and the Shakespearean Star Trek starts to muse. In the future, as in the past, he decides, only one question has real pertinence: What aspects of civilization are worth carrying on? One implicit answer: the ability to wring harmony from dissonance, to create a work of the imagination from disparate and unpromising materials. Example: The End of the World News, a trio made from the detritus of history and scifi...
...greatest drama, Greek and Shakespearean, there is a final reconciliatory acceptance of man's fate. Williams could not achieve that exalting serenity of vision. "Hell is yourself," he said more than once, and the only redemption he knew of was "when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person." In the finest moments of his finest plays, Williams achieves the lesser, but genuine, catharsis of self-transcendence. In breaking out of the imprisoning cycle of self-concern, the playwright and his characters evoke a line from Ecclesiastes: "To him that is joined to all the living...
...good Broadway tune. Richard Rodgers' score is overflowing with delightful melodies that are by turn jaunty and sweet. Harnessed to Lorenz Hart' witty and graceful lyrics, they pull the show along at an exhilarating clip, and in between numbers, George Abbott's book provides just the right mix of Shakespearean vaudeville and vaudevillian Shakespeare. Large chunks of iambic pentameter are carelessly tossed across the stage, only to be nimbly undercut by an outrageously topical reference or a wonderfully bad pun. And since its 1938 world premiere at the Shubert Theater, Boston, The Boys From Syracuse inspired quite a few more...
...Serious," the Ants reduce the Moody Blues to a cliche by making lust sinister. It almost works, but a happy-go-lucky bass line ruins the ceric vocals. In "Here Comes the Grump," the group turns self-reflective (ah, the traumas of being Number One) and even rehash the Shakespearean pun on death as orgasm...
...wisdom can rescue them from themselves ... This familiar tale is saved from banality by the panoramic artwork of Jorg Muller and Jorg Steiner. Gull's-eye views of the islands seem three-dimensional, and the huge pictures of ancient machinery and people have a Shakespearean sweep. "He always worked a triple-hinged surprise/ To end the scene and make one rub his eyes." So wrote Poet Vachel Lindsay about the master of the trick ending, O. Henry. None of his stories has received more notice than The Gift of the Magi (Neugebauer; $11.95); none is more appropriate...