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...SCENT OF FLOWERS takes a girl on a semipoetic, semiprosaic long day's journey into the night of her suicide. Looking uncannily like her aunt Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton gives a tender, well-wrought performance that has beauty, feeling and intensity...
Dunster House was all set for its biennial dinner with President Pusey. The kitchen had purchased tender roast beef and vintage wine from the untroubled year of 1966. Pusey had prepared some "off-the-record family-party" remarks on the problems confronting Harvard-Radcliffe merger...
Their complaints, tender memories and snide remarks about the deceased evoke the contradictory aspects of Antoine's character. In the second act he materializes onstage, rehearsing a group of actors in his last play. To be performed for himself alone, it is about how his relatives and friends will react to his death. In the play-within-the-play (a favorite Anouilh device), the characters and their lines are identical with those of the first act but enriched by Antoine's commenting presence...
...seem to be wildly imperfect reflections of the ideal pooh. If you don't believe me, go to the Square and look for the girl who sells home-made bears, and says in a tiny voice, "Bears for sale." In the middle of the Square. The girl is so tender and exposed that I melt...
This was his cue. It struck a tender nerve, and he replied quickly. "None of you Harvard people know what goes on in Cambridge and none of you care. There's a wall between you and everyone else. You all stay here and you don't know what goes on in this town. You don't want to meet the people, you don't want to mix with them, you don't care the least about them. You think you're above the people. You're all sitting way up above them, way up high. Pusey...