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...Brook calls for a "holy theater," and then searches rather desperately for a definition. At one point, he says almost longingly that "we have lost all sense of ritual and ceremony-whether it be connected with Christmas, birthdays or funerals-but the words remain with us and old impulses stir in the marrow." Brook's deepest illumination about a holy theater comes from the French actor and critic Antonin Artaud, who conceived of the theater of cruelty as searingly holy, "working like the plague, by intoxication, by infection, by analogy, by magic; a theater in which the play...
...Francisco Chronicle. "It sounds funny, but we got used to Senator George Murphy and Governor Ronald Reagan." For a week now, the former Jacqueline Kennedy had been Mrs. Aristotle Onassis, and the world and Herb Caen were beginning to get used to it. Still, though the initial stir of excitement had receded, there was no shortage of comment, much of it venomous...
...theatrical slogan of the hour. The Man in the Glass Booth asks playgoers to share guilt for the massacre of the Jews. The Great White Hope asks playgoers to share guilt for the oppression of the Negro. Both are dramas of contrition with little internal life; they would scarcely stir, except for the borrowed adrenaline of newspaper headlines, past history, and the emotional sympathies of the already converted. For the price of a mea culpa, the audience is made to feel good by feeling...
...eyed restraint. Her characterizations are neither bathetic nor sensationalized. Whenever the book begins to soften into sentimentality, which is a little too often, she flashes a cauterizing wit. She also resists the temptation to moralize. The common humanity of her people reveals itself indirectly, through their power to stir other lonely beings whose disfigurements are merely emotional. Arthur's death after his brief romance with Junie is rather predictable, and the ending is too pat. But Miss Kellogg displays an easy, lightly satirical command of the hospital-medical milieu, as befits a professional therapist (one of her patients...
...come to Meridian to sleep. Not to make trouble, to stir up the blacks, or to yell at whites. Just to go to sleep. But I made a big mistake, I chose to sleep at the BF Young Hotel, run by the city's richest Negro. After I had paid for the room, I went out to see the city's sights. On my way, I stopped at King Phillip's service station for some...