Word: winthrops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, now you're older, and even though all those dumb jokes aren't getting any younger either, you can still give them all a second chance in the Winthrop House JCR this weekend. Charlie Brown, despite his advancing years, and despite the fact that newspapers are pushing both him and Jules Feiffer aside in favor of Doonesbury, is still young America's quintessential nebbish, every little boy's and girl's Woody Allen-writ small. Charles M. Schultz's cutesie-pie pop-psychological ponderings have been adapted for the stage by Clark Gesner...
...Good Man, Charlie Brown. Poor put-upon Charlie Brown, along with his high-flying dog, underpaid psychiatrist and blanket-carrying buddy, makes his appearance in a fast-paced, well-acted production at Winthrop House. In the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, with performances Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday...
...LITERARY KEY to late Puritan ideology, Bercovitch chooses not the jeremiads but Cotton Mather's epic work, the Magnalia Christi Americana--particularly his "Life of John Winthrop." In his "Life," Mather portrays Winthrop as a "Nehemius Americanus," a peculiarly American saviour whose life foreshadows the Second Coming. Mather's ambition, according to Bercovitch, is to be the Winthrop of his generation; writing during the decline of theocracy, Mather, he says, offered himself--in his capacity as a representative American type--as a link between the triumphal era of Winthrop and the millenial future, thus initiating a special mode of defining...
Unfortunately, Bercovitch's own rhetorical strategy is far less compelling. The basic plan of his book--which begins with a close textual analysis of Mather's study of Winthrop and expands into an examination of its cultural context and implications as a testament to American identity--is potentially workable, even exciting. What mars its execution, however, is Bercovitch's overfondness for long, convoluted sentences punctuated with Latin expressions, his heavy use of quotations, and the slowness with which he moves from concept to concept. Together these flaws give his prose a muddy, static quality...
...Good Man, Charlie Brown. A musical based on Charles Schulz's famous comic strip. At the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, April 8-10 and 15-17, at 8 p.m. Special late-evening performances April...