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...Ludwig Meidner, and the large and comprehensive group of drawings of Die Brucke: choice Kirchners, Heckels, and Pechsteins. The collection is also distinguished by its Grosz drawings, examples of his most incisive social criticism, and by a few single gems: Franz Marc's Two Studies for Horses (a preliminary sketch for his painting, Blue Horses), Max Beckmann's horrific The Last Ones (1919), Otto Dix's almost surreal Klara (1920), Schmidt-Rottluff's Seated Nude Facing Left...
...program began humorously but nebulously with "The Jungle", in which "animals" cavorted around the stage. The skillful mimicry of various animal traits is only a trap to draw the audience into the spirit of the presentation. Once the audience relaxed, the sketch took an unexpected twist--the entire "jungle" discovered that it was confined by "bars" (less than a foot from the front row of seats), and the act concluded with a group of chimpanzees glaring accusingly at their observers...
...ultimate test of the cast's ability and the audience's acceptance came in "Pavane", a sketch whose ideas and execution were totally abstract. Accompanied by a Faure theme, the actors represented the idea of birdlike flight using gently floating hands, joined arms and bodies, and bodies moving separately in graceful dance. The placid beauty of the scene was disrupted by the entrance of humanity as a hunter. She killed the birds, and then realized, too late, what she had destroyed. But much to the hunter's astonishment, the fliers are resurrected in spirit. the show ends, as the sketch...
Each of the two acts starts out quickly, hits a quick peak with a sketch about Harvard and slows down in the middle before picking up again at the end. Both of these Harvard skits are written by Paul Cantor, assistant professor of English, who should have written more for the show, and much of the middle sections are written by Mark O'Donnell '76, who should have written less. Although many of O'Donnell's sketches are very funny (T.V. Weather Report: "Lots of dashed lines in the Northeast.") his talent is spread too thinly over the 14 pieces...
...Toys and Reasons, Erikson adds a third element to Freud's description--play. Starting with a vaguely Piagetian hypothesis that play with toys allows children to heighten their awareness of the relation between the subjective "I" and the surrounding world, Erikson goes on to sketch a very rough schema of the ways people in our culture continue to grow and negotiate their place in society through various forms of ritualized game-playing. He finally extends his discussion to military war games and the anti-war movement of the 1960s, and the brief glimpse it gave of the potential of ritualized...