Word: transcendental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite a trio of transcendent performances and occasional moments of mercurial passion, A Lesson from Aloes is curiously stillborn. Fugard relies far too relentlessly on talk, the inspissated venom of the impotent. It is as if his cha acters were constantly grappling fate at the tonsils, rather than grabbing it...
Childbirth remains one of the most grotesque and transcendent of all natural functions, matched perhaps only by its necessary preliminary. Everything about the process is astonishing. Especially the baby. Science Writer K.C. Cole, despite her own and her husband's most diligent efforts to know exactly what was happening...
IN MOST INSTANCES, though, King arrives at the not-so-surprising conclusion that few authors can untangle themselves from the bewildering signals of a misunderstood past. Psychoanalysis occasionally helps individual patients but offers small counsel to an emotionally troubled culture. King concludes, rightly, that even Faulkner's "transcendent" achievement in...
But this Dream at the Loeb goes far beyond technical proficiency or dramatic virtuosity. The play demands total ensemble work not just for the sake of the number of major roles it contains but for the revelation of its multiple meanings, and the American Repertory Theater (ART) provides a group...
The non-violent civil disobedience of Thoreau, Gandhi and King has a sacred aura in this book, and it is vin dicated by its political and spiritual triumphs. But when the affluent college students of the '60s seize the revelations of the civil rights movement, the drama and courage of...