Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exam is intended to crystallize SDS's opposition to the war and reach numbers of people. "[The Vietnam program] is meant as a skeleton to which local chapters and groups can add...[It] will get much national publicity, and will unite the protests exam centers for the maximum national impact," an instruction sheet from national SDS offices to local chapters says...
...play, tells how an unmanageable, eccentric young painter is destroyed by his love for his mother, Karl Marx, King Kong, and a sleek London socialite named Leonie. Leonie is Morgan's wife, but she has just divorced him. His idea of wooing her back is to put a skeleton in her bed or to wire her boudoir with shattering hi-fi sound effects, hoping that her lover and husband-to-be may die of fright. He steals Leonie's car, nearly blows her mother to smithereens, finally has the poor girl kidnaped. After doing penance in jail...
...loose, somewhat lumpy poems, and hundreds of febrile, fretful letters. He painted, occasionally, as he wrote, in an earnest, impetuous manner. All of these disjecta membra have been examined with fascination and respect by a large number of critics, biographers and memoirists, but they have all but ignored the skeleton in Lawrence's literary closet: he was also a playwright...
There is in fact not just one skeleton but ten, and they are relics worth exhuming. As plays, they are quite unplayable. Although two of them were produced in England some years ago, their subject matter and their dramaturgy are now badly out of style. Still, as part of a whole picture they are fascinating. They reveal Lawrence's rich gift for dialogue, and they show him working and reworking scenes and characters from his novels...
They pose as army recruiters. But Musgrave is a slow-witted Brechtian soldier of dumb pluck who believes that he has finally wised up to the ways of the wicked war breeders. He plans to string up the skeleton and then mow down the town bigwigs in wrathful reprisal, a mortal atonement for war guilt. His trigger finger is numbed by the playwright: "You can't cure the pox by further whoring." This is presumably Arden's pacifist manifesto...