Word: yossarianic
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Jeremy L. McCarter '98 and his cast of talented actors negotiate this creative set with energy, enthusiasm and wit to spare. Like the wacky stream of militar characters who spin around Yossarian,--the wartime pilot who believe that everyone is out to get him--the setting of the play switches from stage to stage so smoothly that even if one's view is slightly blocked due to a distant sea (or a tall person in the front), it will no be for long anyway...
...John Yossarian, the reluctant bombardier and principled antihero of Catch- 22, is back, older -- he is 68 -- and still trying to convince doctors -- this time at a posh Manhattan hospital rather than at a military clinic on the Italian island of Pianosa -- that he is sick. Yossarian remains wary and weary of a world that holds out the prospect of his own death: "I wish the daily newspapers were smaller and came out weekly." After successful careers in advertising and on Wall Street, he does consulting work for Catch-22's amoral entrepreneur, Milo Minderbinder. Milo, no surprise, now owns...
...good living from World War II." Was he worried about chumming with future versions of the relentless Colonel Cathcart? "This is a once-in- a-lifetime experience, and I hope I'll be back in another 25 years," said Heller, employing the kind of logic that his reluctant hero Yossarian would understand...
...half-grown rhinoceros. The author seems only occasionally and precariously in control of this Jabberwock of a book, but since Catch-22 is a wild war satire, it does not much matter that the book tramples what scenery it does not chew. The novel's hero is Yossarian, an Air Force captain whose maladjustment is that he is sane. He is stationed in Italy and has flown 40 or 50 missions, and he tries to explain to a friend what troubles him about this: "They're trying to kill me." No one is trying to kill...
Joseph Heller gets more miles per novel than any other American-made author. Consider the phenomenal efficiency of Catch-22, a book that continues to run on one joke. It is the old switcheroo, best expressed by Doc Daneeka when he tells Yossarian "that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have...