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...Metzler Lake Zurich...
...playwright's fancy was taken by the fact that three revolutionaries of vastly differing temperaments and persuasions lived contiguously in Zurich during World War I. They were Tristan Tzara, Rumanian poet and founder of Dadaism, James Joyce and Lenin. There is no evidence that they ever met each other, but in Travesties, they do. Stoppard was further intrigued by a suit filed against Joyce by one Henry Carr for the price of a pair of trousers. A minor British consular official, Carr had purchased the trousers to play Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest for a Joyce...
...Elsinore. Junipers is exile from God. No one can clearly divine his purposes or verify his existence. Travesties is exile by intent, a rebellion against social traditions and aesthetic norms. Travesties, a play-within-a-monologue, begins with the age-frazzled Carr (John Wood) reminiscing intimately about the famed Zurich trio in a way that illustrates a perennial travesty: the ravages of time on memory. What follows is part vaudeville, part nonstop debate and part instant replay of Wilde's play with absurdist variations...
Cornforth, an Australian-born researcher now at the University of Sussex, and Yugoslav-born Prelog, of Zurich's Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, helped define the three-dimensional structure of organic molecules. Cornforth, who has been deaf since boyhood, concentrated on enzymes-the catalysts for chemical reactions in living things-while Prelog studied other organic molecules, including antibiotics...
...hours at the delegates' bar, "followed by long martini lunches." Brennan was promoted to higher posts in The Netherlands -which involved more social drinking -Austria, where he started drinking alone, and finally Switzerland. When he at last sought help, Brennan says, he was met in a Zurich hotel room by higher Ford officials who persuaded him-"over a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label"-to take early retirement...