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In Pirandello's great plays, we are forced, with his characters, to view role-playing with compassion: "The harder the struggle for life and the more one's weakness is felt, the greater becomes the need for mutual deception." Pirandello had been aware of this long before Chee-Chee--he...

Author: By Stephen Tifft, | Title: Pirandellian Calisthenics | 10/24/1974 | See Source »

In the end, we share her polite confusion. Why did Pirandello bother with this slight and static play? At most, it deserves a quick reading before dinner, as a contrast to his mature work. We are shown deception, but are not rewarded with a shield for our weakness; only with...

Author: By Stephen Tifft, | Title: Pirandellian Calisthenics | 10/24/1974 | See Source »

Lawrence of Arabia was a lot of people's favorite movie when they were are kid (for boys especially, since there are no women in the film, although some girls might have had a weakness for Peter O'Toole's blue eyes--the effect heightened by eyedrops--at that age...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: THE SCREEN | 10/17/1974 | See Source »

But a study conducted among 1,700 women at 34 institutions suggests that the operation, which can produce lifelong pain, weakness and periodic swelling in the affected arm, may be unnecessary in some cases. Doctors divided women whose cancers had not yet been found by clinical examination to have infiltrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Coping with Cancer | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

The prose is a lot like Kurt Vonnegut's, but it lacks the naivete that allows Vonnegut to laugh. Heller's somber style reflects the cautious narrator's inhibitions. Their eventual breakdown only after it has become too late remains in Slocum's eyes a sign of weakness. In the...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Connive To Survive, Stay Alive Til Five | 10/11/1974 | See Source »

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