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...share characteristics and concerns, making much of the collection seem like loose variations on a theme. The young men try to farm the family land, are scab truck-drivers, sell whiskey at illegal cockflights of mine coal. Attached to the land, they feel trapped and in complete in their tedious, brutal jobs and empty relationships with family and women but a more satisfying life is out of reach. In "A Room Forever," a man who works on Ohio River tugboats begins to tire of life passed in hotel rooms and pool halls and in the company of prostitutes and winos...
This year's production. Of Mines and Men, is as sharp as any Cleverly written and performed, it retains the best parts of Pudding shows past--the quick action, smooth choreography and blunt but nonetheless--their tendency to dissolve midway through to inflict unduly tedious second acts upon audiences who stick around only for the theatrical's famed kick-line finale. And it continue to provide just enough of the Harvard and Pudding in-jokes that Pudding goes relish. This year, for instance, there is a musical reference to Chem 20 and narcissistic puns like: "oh, Gustave...
Aside from the glamor of conservation and the excitement of unique discoveries, the Center's specialists must often do the more tedious and undesirable work of cleaning pieces of art. Paintings often become infested with worms, beetles, and other pests. Lab workers recently removed an 11th century Chinese polychrome wood statue from exhibition at the Fogg for the first time since 1928. They had to fumigate the piece in a special lab to rid it of powder-post beetles...
...reality. All too often, however, one also suspects that he is biting his thumb at the audience. It is not that he refuses to communicate. The themes--madness and sanity, meaning versus nihilism--present themselves at every turn. It's just that their hammering symbolism and anti-realism become tedious after a while. The director, it seems, is almost coercing one to interpret first, watch later. But unless one is prepared to keep a running tally of symbols, the piece is destined--indeed, determined--to remain little more than an enginia wrapped in a metaphor...
Unfortunately, the nuggets are spread through an expanse of correspondence that sometimes becomes tedious. Winnick had access to all letters in MacLeish's possession (except those to and from his wife Ada) and he lists two pages of additional sources. No doubt he wanted to make a thorough and scholarly compilation, but the nearly 400 letters probably could have been cut by about a third without losing much. Nevertheless, it is well worth skimming through the housekeeping details, travel plans, and mundane dealings with editors to get to the plentiful meat...