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...novels of Thomas Pynchon seem to take place in a vast, unfathomable cyclotron. Characters, ideas, metaphors, styles, pains, ecstasies, assorted objects from the Pyramids to paper clips all whirl about at enormous velocity. They collide, split into new forms, or suddenly decay, leaving behind only enigmatic smiles...
WHEN EMILY MANN'S PRODUCTION of Robert Montgomery's Subject to Fits becomes good theater, and good art, the Loeb stage is set spinning with the whirl of a dance of living death. All of the characters in this "response to Dostoyevski's The Idiot" are trapped in individual hells, and in the bigger hell of the universe, and when they are forced to test their limits and laugh at them, human strength has a chance to win a sane survival. In morbid party games, in psychic tortures gleefully inflicted and returned, Mann's and Montgomery's cast of depraved...
...written an account of a party at Harvard that sounds something like the one that the Advocate threw last Spring for Mailer in the Lampoon building. The appearance of John Marquand. Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Dudley House in a photo feature "Workaday Whirl" may give some people pleasure. And when the face game gets boring, it is always possible to try identifying the buildings--some of the pictures are taken with Widener, the Yard, and various other places as backdrops. If all else fails, it is always possible to go through the masthead and see how many people...
Adults who neither drink nor smoke, daydream, hallucinate mildly just before sleep, and meditate or withdraw from the waking state without realizing that they are in effect, "high." Young children whirl around madly to produce dizziness or "vertiginous stupor;" they also hyperventilate, inhale the fumes of volatile solvents, experience the effects of ether during operations. As they grow older they learn that such practices are not acceptable to adults, sublimate the desire to experience altered consciousness, and eventually regain social approval of a high by drinking and-or taking drugs...
Still, Julian Bond adhered o his own strategy, keeping his distance from the frenetic whirl of the primaries...