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...Jean Genet's dramatic thesis that the world is a brothel and vice versa; The Connection, an awesomely naturalistic study of junkies in their pad; Krapp's Last Tape, a single-actor tour de force about youth and age, on a double bill with The Zoo Story, wherein Playwright Edward Albee creates a critical mass by clanging together a beat with a square; A Country Scandal, an early play of Anton Chekhov, produced professionally in the U.S. for the first time, providing ample and comic proof that minor Chekhov is equal to the major efforts of most others...
...issue of your fine magazine you discussed the unusual malady of "imaginary poverty," wherein wealthy individuals imagine themselves to be impoverished and conduct their personal spending accordingly...
Existentialism is important to Orthodoxy, thinks Rabbi Spero, partly because it has exposed the inadequacy of the liberal, merely rational, versions of Judaism, and partly because it has managed "to create the philosophic climate, and to popularize certain categories of thought, wherein the classic Biblical concepts can again be spoken and appreciated...
...your May 9 story wherein you wrote that Teacher Levin nearly got the ax for teaching The Catcher...
...thing to Medea and Laurence Olivier has done it to both Oedipus and Richard III." Leap Out of Time. Fear of conformity sometimes results in a false personality cult. "The artist becomes the isolated, romantic hero, instead of taking up the task of building . . . higher and deeper rituals wherein alone personality will be achieved and our cheaper conformities or etiquettes restore themselves to sense." Even in as Roman Catholic a writer as Graham Greene, Critic Lynch finds "a subtle if unconscious demonstration of the Manichaean way"-especially in the novel, The End of the Affair, in which the heroine renounces...