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...hell is happiness?" John Berryman once asked his first wife, the author of this memoir. He added another question: "Should a poet seek it?" For Berryman and many other poets of his generation, the answer seems to have been no. They did not flame out young, like Keats and Shelley. But few of them enjoyed their later years, and they are all gone now: Berryman, Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell, Dylan Thomas, Theodore Roethke and Delmore Schwartz. They left behind some splendid poems and some terribly sad histories of alcoholism, mental illness, despair and suicide...
Harvard's final goal came in the fourth period when J.J. Nullet rolled by his defender and blasted the ball by Shelley to give the laxmen an insurance tally, 12-10. Adelphi scored once more but had any hopes of a last minute rally squelched when coach Paul Doherty was slapped with two quick penalties for unsportsmanlike conduct, giving Harvard a two-minute power play as the end of the game...
...years before the action begins, the boy, Shelley Solomon (Evan Handler), had quit his pre-med studies to join the cult of the Unified Congregation. From a temple of that cult, Shelley has vituperatively proclaimed that his divorced "earth parents" are dead and that "I am fed by the flame of the Holy Essence...
Convinced that his son has been brainwashed, programmed like a computer, the distraught father Allan (John McMartin) hires a deprogrammer to restore Shelley to his precult self. The duel of wits, will and passion between the boy and the deprogrammer, Balthazar (Anthony Zerbe), forms the core of this eruptively theatrical play. Echoes of Equus resound-of the boy who blinded horses he took to be gods, of the psychiatrist who cured...
...Magi) is an ambiguous wise man. He has been a phony evangelist who muleted gullible believers, a sly fox in the vineyards of the Lord. Precisely because he has dabbled in the devil's art, he can cite Scripture, incandescently, to cast out the devils who possess Shelley...