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After two unrewarding struggles to revive mediocre plays, the Harvard Summer Players have finally brought to the Main Stage a play of significance and value. And while not always successful in meeting the challenge of Shavian dialogue, they have succeeded in producing a Man and Superman that is often very funny, if not always thoughtful...
...battle of the sexes, sketched in the script with deftness and insight, is too often reduced in the Harvard production to mere coquetry. Man and Superman is something of a modern morality play, with its characters symbolizing concepts rather than ordinary people. Only at times do the Harvard players achieve this universality, however; more often they are just figures in what Bentley has called the "low biological comedy" of the story...
...Marburgers are unswayed by such arguments. They argue that the Jesus of their studies is considerably more coherent than the part-man, part-superman, part-God image served UD by most sermons. "Our effort," says Conzelmann, "is to make that image more precise." The disciples also charge that most of their critics misunderstand the purpose and methodology of the new quest. Far from destroying faith, it is meant to confirm it by establishing the facts about the earthly Jesus that even the most critical scientific historian would have to accept. More important, the quest seeks to prove that there...
...such agency-placed ads as "A heart to give away-am 39, 160 [centimeters tall], alone, not ugly, but wearer of glasses," or "Hello, hello! What young man between 35 and 45 would like to try his happiness with me?" Agencies make a paunchy male sound like a Wagnerian superman, a wilting wallflower a paragon of charm and virtue. Many agencies put love on a chain-store basis, increasing the chance for a successful match by trading clients among as many as 32 branches. Drawing clients from every class and profession, marriage brokers account for 60.000 to 80.000 marriages every...
While taking in Robert Dawson's good poems for instance, the ancient courtesan has had to choke on his bad ones as well. The "Superman" and "Donald Duck" of Dawson's Suite Picaresque neatly juxtapose their heroes with a more immediate world, and unlike "Tonto" and "Woody Woodpecker" are careful and clever, never trying to tease too many profundities at once. For the most part he avoids what most of this issue's other contributors tirelessly insist upon attempting--sloppy, rambling, and pretentious juggling with the Absolute. Instead of annihilating all his images by sudden leaps from them into windy...