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...thaw brought renewed official acceptance. Much of her work was republished in Russia. At 75, she traveled to Oxford for an honorary degree, to Italy for a prize and to Paris. where 53 years before Modigliani had sketched her portrait. But fame, as Akhmatova once wrote, "is a trap wherein there is neither happiness nor light." Two years later, when she was buried with full Orthodox rites, her graveside was crowded with the Soviet literary establishment...
...Impresario Russ Meyer, Romero edits his scenes into short blurts, which gives them a certain spurious energy. His scripts, which hover dangerously close to illiteracy, contain outrageously pedestrian dialogue, mostly shouted. ("Get Dr. Brookmyre a gas mask!") The plot of The Crazies is a graft off The Andromeda Strain, wherein a virus that the Government has perfected for germ warfare somehow escapes and drives the citizens of Evans City, Pa., out of their gourds. The performances, mostly by amateurs, with a sprinkling of peripheral professionals, suggest that Pittsburgh is no hotbed of undiscovered talent...
...black separatism, Dan Swanson misses the point. Harvard's past racism and current vestiges thereof, bad as these are, are not fundamental to black separatism among Harvard Negro students. Black separatism is essentially the product of a desire by Negro students to define an arena of activity within Harvard wherein they can realize a sense of relevance and value outside the competitive academic and intellectual life-styles of Harvard College. This arena provides two things to blacks at white Harvard: one, a source of identity separate from academic processes; two, a base for political leverage over some Harvard operations...
...into fairy tale moralism. The method is a radical one, paradoxically, in that it hearkens back to an earlier age of the novel (and this must be a good thing) by working with the intensity of dramatic scenes--a throwback to Dostoyevsky. By taking diverse experience and building situations wherein he can forge these loose elements into a crystallized, jewelled point of metaphor, Rhodes is externalizing in a very sophisticated way. Episode after episode with the Sledges operates in this way; so does the whole trip through The City...
SAVED--banned in Britain as it's advertised--has gained notoriety for its first act climax wherein a baby is stoned to death in its carriage. Undertaken by a gang of tougs very much in the spirit of the old ultra-violence, the image is shocking and disturbing. However, this production of Saved fails to build around it. It is simply there, a part of the production, but never an element in the emotional landscape of the play...