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...showing that she has been treated badly by God from the start. This deprivation, however, primarily consists of not being given a penis, and that leads us back to a basically male-oriented view. Like the Bible and Milton before him, Miller presents Woman as the more blameworthy sinner. One can only go so far, after all, in pacifying Women's Lib before losing the original theme. Miller has tried to keep a foot in both camps, and the stretch has turned...
Calling, O sinner, come home...
...after Byron's death, so the hero appears only in flashback and as a ghost. The whole work is framed as an answer to the question of why Westminster Abbey would not allow Byron's body to be interred there. Thomson might almost have called it "One Sinner in Three Acts," because he dwells almost exclusively on the rakish side of Byron's character-his playboy excesses, his foppish haughtiness, his promiscuous escapades with both sexes. The listener must take Byron's poetic and personal genius on faith...
...view the listener receives from Dr. John is full of contradictions... contradictions that underlie black and white magic, savior and sinner. On his first album he introduced himself as Dr. John the Night Tripper, "with medicine to cure all your ills," but in The Sun, Moon and Herbs he has moved toward the demonic, at one point carrying on a strange conversation in which he tells of punishing his enemies with snake eggs and burning candles. Dr. John is the high priest of magic, but is the magic black or white...
...Mass is a jumble of literal and symbolic meanings, a contrived happening with pretentious overtones, a non-play about a non-Mass. In fact, what Bernstein created, perhaps unwittingly, is an upside down atomic-age Everyman in which the medieval morality play's message (man the hopeless, fleshly sinner, whose soul may yet be redeemed by Christ's Passion) degenerates into a kind of soupy, sentimental Brüderschaft...