Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seed growing into a tree. Stewed Primes, the long-running revue at nearby Take 3, was so good that it moved into an off-Broadway theater. Caffe Cino, another Village place, concentrates on one-acters, is now doing something called Herrengasse, a Kafkan-Brechtian "sweet and swinging tale of the decline of the West." And Bleecker Street's Premise contains four young actors who do excellent improvisations at the drop of a hint from the audience...
Raditzer, by Peter Matthiessen. Writing with an incisiveness that recalls Conrad, Novelist Matthiessen tells a harsh tale of a parasite and a host-the one a whining Army goldbricker, the other a strong and decent man who is subtly chivied into becoming the sniveler's protector...
...always easy to spot the moral of a Miller tale, because he always has a chorus ready to tell us what it is. For instance, Joe tells his mother, "Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that, you threw away your son because that's why he died." Actually, that's not why he died at all. He died because, as he said in a letter to his girl, "I can't face anybody." He died, like a violated Victorian heroine...
...that the children of the poor should be fattened like cattle and then eaten by the rich, might well be wickedly amused to hear that Gulliver's Travels, his epic of disgust for men and all their works, survives as a charmingly fantastic just-out-of-the-nursery tale that has delighted generations of the little Yahoos he detested. Satirist Swift would, however, hardly be amused by this film, which with commerce aforethought, scissors his plot and ruthlessly modernizes his ironic allegory of Lilliput and Brobdingnag into a monster movie freckled with psychiatric footnotes. But the dean is dead...
Raditzer, by Peter Matthiessen. Writing with an incisiveness that recalls Conrad, Novelist Matthiessen tells a harsh tale of a parasite and a host-the one a whining Army goldbricker, the other a strong and decent man who is subtly chivied into becoming the sniveler's protector...