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Allen's supporters, who are also protesting alleged racism, sexism, and rising tuition costs at Boston State, disrupted a meeting of the Board of Trustees of State Colleges yesterday in the hope of securing Allen's rehiring. Sylvia K. Burack, vice president of the board, said the group spoke "extremely persuasively," but that the issue must be referred to an appropriate committee, since the Board cannot make immediate decisions. Burack was tired. The meeting--"noisy, with banners and storm talk"--lasted two and a half hours...
...SYLVIA PLATH. Romantic cults seem to spring up rapidly round poets who die young. An element of thanatophilia enters into the worship of such poets. It is somehow felt that they were purified by dying and spared the physical and moral corruption to which ordinary mortals are subject...
Think of Shelley, who died by drowning and whose heart was snatched from the funeral pyre by his fellow romantic, Trelawney. Or of Dylan Thomas, a sacrificial votary of drink (Olympian draughts, of course). Since the winter day in 1963 when Sylvia Plath turned on the gas and laid her head in her kitchen oven, she has become a goddess of the thanatophiliacs...
...women (Brenda Bruce, Estelle Kohler, Louise Jameson) have good voices, speak with commendable clarity, and represent varying facets of Sylvia Plath's personality. The stage is almost bone bare. The women wear what look like white nightgowns in the first act, and white surgical gowns and caps in Act II. This effects a contrast with the Stygian-dark moods and bloodletting images of the poems...
...hall of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in which Sylvia Plath is being presented offers audiences a tier of backless stone-hard benches set so closely together that one playgoer's knees poke into another playgoer's back. Combined with Plathian dementia, it is a rather grim evening for body and soul. ·T. F. Kalen