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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critique becomes more impassioned and more futile, it becomes obvious that Zoditch lacks everyone of Chulkaturin's admirable qualities. He dismisses Chulkaturin's compassion as maudlin because nothing can arouse his sympathy, for Zoditch, Chulkaturin's love is overly sentimental because Zoditch is not even capable of the mildest sort of affection. That is precisely why he cannot accept the ending of Chulkaturin's manuscript, why he must scream "I am loved; there is no other ending!" He has not even the smallest bit of the self-respect that allows a man to endure so cruel a fate...
...just two minutes past touchdown on the moon's surface [July 25]. It is night in my country-and I sit alone, overwhelmed by this fantastic feat. It is great to be alive tonight. I cannot explain what I feel-a sort of pride in this human achievement...
...implication in his back-to-work announcement was that he carried a kind of renewed mandate. To be sure, the people of Massachusetts, from Pittsfield to Boston, had responded to Kennedy's testing of their faith with a sort of spontaneous plebiscite, an outpouring of letters and telegrams affirming their confidence. But, said the Boston Globe: "It is a bit like an umpire turning about in Fenway Park to ask the audience whether Carl Yastrzemski is safe at the plate...
Irina's other suitor is the captain, Solyony, who kills Tusenbach in the duel. He is a strange man, and throughout the play keeps putting scent on his hands to get rid of their smell of death--like some sort of male Lady Macbeth. Right from the first act, Charles Cioffi's portrayal is a remarkable piece of acting. Solyony speaks scarcely a half dozen times in all of Act I, and spends most of the time sitting silently on a chair in the corner. Nevertheless, Cioffi tells us a great deal about this morose and mysterious character. We notice...
...have no word for it. The nearest to it is that they are our guardians. They guard us." More remarkable still, these children of violence are born free of the curse of violence. And when one exceptional child does want to fight, "the children regarded him as some sort of unfortunate born with the need to quarrel as if as might have had a harelip...