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...underworld moneybags, and this leper-judge has infected and diseased the whole process of justice. One clever judge, Cust, steers suspicion toward Vanan, the aging chief of the court. Vanan is innocent; yet he is shattered and acts guilty. As the investigation goes on, Cust analyzes the inner torment and Luciferian guile of the truly guilty party, and does it with such brilliant intuitiveness that the playgoer realizes that it must be Cust...
...Mouse, by Günter Grass. Best-selling Novelist Grass (The Tin Drum) relates the torment of a young man whose prominent Adam's apple makes him an outcast to his classmates. He strives for excellence and wins it, but to the "cat"-human conformity-he is still a curiosity...
...Mouse, by Günter Grass. Best-selling Novelist Grass (The Tin Drum) relates the torment of a young man whose prominent Adam's apple makes him an outcast to his classmates. He strives for achievement and wins it, but to the "cat"-human conformity-he is still a curiosity...
Thus one is unavoidably engaged by the specifically "Negro" aspects of the story: Jim's sister's speeches about "fighting for our race;" Jim's inner torment over being the only Negro in his law school class; Ella's shame at having married a Negro. O'Neill's basic theme, the passionately destructive relationship between Ella and Jim, cannot help but be obscured by the incidental racial questions...
...Link is a bitter, anguished inspection of what Strindberg believed to be the inevitable sordidness of a basic human institution--marriage. Written when the playwright was experiencing perhaps the climax of the unhappiness and torment that plagued his life, the script at times writhes in agonized protest of both human and natural restrictions and institutions...