Word: sustainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little parable on the success goddess-bitchiness. It may be clever, but it is far from valid. Cynicism is sentimentality in reverse and equally untrue. Of all places, the theater, with its intense critical scrutiny, verifies the copybook maxim that success must be earned and that only merit will sustain...
...Morrison is generally able to sustain lyrics with more finesse. He wavers between seeing love as a cure-all and seeing it as the cause for all the trouble in the world. There is something of the gypsy in his words, and something of the mystic-both in combination with the adolescent lover...
...attack on hunger are related to where we're going. There are 15 million people in this country who are hungry, and 50% of them are black, and when you move in this fashion, you start taking care of the children, because they will have to sustain the struggle...
...devil's advocate has all the best lines, even if many of them are overwrought and overwrit. It is Magee's poet-haranguing, seducing, at once flailing out with and wincing from his own lash-who jolts the play occasionally into the corrosive credibility it ought to sustain throughout...
...friends happy is too much for Julius. Playing on vanity, sowing distrust he labors suavely to link Rupert with Hilda's younger sister and Simon with himself. As the plot unravels, the book shifts from comedy to melodrama, to tragedy-a course few writers could control or sustain. Miss Murdoch nearly manages it, because her presence is so forcefully stamped on every event and every line of dialogue. She is moralist, realist and magician, an unsentimental Titania gazing coolly at the "enchanted donkeys"-lovers whom she awakens from Midsummer Night's madness...