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...about a gargantuan sci-fi mammary gland. The Great American Novel is certainly utterly bereft of Greatness, but it is great in the way that Tony the Tiger intones the word. And it is not, as some have intimated, the pretentious and self-indulgent product of a jaded literary titan who has nothing better to do than write the Great American Conceit. Roth has asked for it -- he can probably afford to lay himself open to this kind of facile speculation. But for once let the context be forgot, not only because one could make a case for a peculiarly...
PAULINE KAEL has always been my father's favorite movie reviewer. To me she is titan critic of them all, often bigger than the movies she writes about, and I have the feeling that she would appreciate the distinction. It comes out of the fact that movies were elevated to an art form as part of the Pop impulse of the sixties, and under the domination of Pop, people started taking the movie messages more seriously than they ever had before, which makes the job of the critic all the more critical. Movie makers got more pretentious, and superlatives were...
...vital Prometheus, Christopher Kennedy communicates his suffering with sufficient strength and sincerity to hold the play together. Yet constantly craning his neck and turning his Roman profile to the light, Kennedy seems a little too arrogant: his sneers make the Titan's earlier compassion for man incomprehensible. With the exception of Liz Tyler, the chorus leader, and Louise Claps, the supporting cast too often tends toward melodrama or sing-song declamation. Tyler is adequate in a role comparable to the straight man in a comedy team; like a kindly next-door neighbor, she foils the cries and anguish of Prometheus...
...idea of an indifferent God whose supposed wisdom seems more like folly is familiar today; the words of those who urge the rebel to conform ring true. What is incredible about an expression of the Prometheus myth today is the concept of a savior of mankind. About the Titan's successful defiance of tyranny the play revolves; upon the distance of this idea from our own experience, the production sinks into a dramatic rite...
Ritter's contribution is one of a very few lively and enlightening pieces in The Vonnegut Statement. But good grief! A term paper on Vonnegut? Kurt Vonnegut Jr., the author of Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, God Bless You, Mr. Rose-water and Slaughterhouse-Five? Vonnegut, that enemy of pretension who writes about the cosmos and fate as if God were a tricky garage mechanic? Since the late '60s, following the republication of some of the early novels, students have indeed been assigned Vonnegut term papers...