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Responding to mysterious sci-fi bleepings, a group of flower children led by David Haskell come together for a splash party in Central Park's Belvedere Fountain. There they find Christ: an androgyne wearing a Superman sweatshirt. Repairing to a junkyard, which handles only clean and cute junk, they outfit themselves as a band of strolling players devoted to acting out the Passion against the picturesque backdrop of the modern Jerusalem (Manhattan!). The players hop, skip and bounce relentlessly through their routines as if the relevant saint for them was St. Vitus. Not that any of these rolling pebbles...
...related. But now man's confidence in his power to control his world is at a low ebb. Technology is seen as a dangerous ally, and progress is suspect. Even the evolutionists share this unease; their hope lies not in man as he is but in some mutant superman...
SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BIG STICK, by Thomas P.F. Hoving (1931-). A standing figure, slightly over lifesize, wearing a purple toga with a capital S (for Superman) on the chest, in red, now faded. The left hand points to a Master Plan. Despite reports in the New York Times, radiographic examination reveals no trace of horns or pointed tail in the under painting. In the background, above a landscape with kiosks and parking lots thought to represent Central Park, various allegorical groups symbolize the Master's career...
...sized cities as Youngstown, Ohio; Hartford. Conn.; and San Diego, which tend to have more flexible program directors than the rigidly scheduled big-league stations. There are plenty of valid forms of blandishment, and some of them are quite inventive. One promo man in Cleveland dressed up in a Superman costume and climbed a fire escape to the third-floor window of a program director's office so that he could spring inside with his wares. Another managed to pose as a waiter in a program director's favorite restaurant, then served up his "push" single to the program director...
...JUAN IN HELL, by George Bernard Shaw. This is Act III of the four-act Man and Superman. It is usually left out of the play, since it has only a tenuous connection with the rest of the larger work and lasts two hours all by itself. It is a dream sequence set in hell, with four characters out of the legend made famous by Moliere and Mozart: Don Juan; Dona Ana, whose virtue he attempted to assault; the Commendatore, her father, slain by the archseducer; and the devil. In all of English drama, there is no more dazzlingly sustained...