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...invention." Next day, at an impromptu press conference in an Albany airport hangar, Rocky himself implied that the whole story had been planted with the Daily News by New York's Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner. He called it "absurd and wishful thinking on the part of the Democratic boss." Then reporters asked him if he thought that his divorce would hurt him politically. "I don't think so," he said. Question: "Do you consider the divorce question nonpolitical?" The heated reply: "I certainly consider it a personal matter...
...Fall & the Fallout. The Apple is a sample, not the best, or the worst, of an avant-garde movement that has been called "the theater of the absurd." It is a school whose major defect stems from its chief virtue: it fashions hypnotic images of disorder to convey the sense of a disordered world. But the essence of dramatic art, as of all art, is to impose order on chaos. Flawed, shapeless, often inarticulate, the theater of the absurd nonetheless does generate excitement. In its surreal, evocative way, it tries to grapple with the way things are now, with...
...Plus Godot. In view of its calculated mystifications, it may seem a trifle absurd to argue that this school of playwriting is seriously engaged in a radical criticism of the modern world and in a religious quest for the meaning of man. But in a provocative new book (The Theatre of the Absurd; Anchor Books; $1.45), Critic Martin Esslin argues just that and does it convincingly...
...sifting Esslin's text, three significant plays emerge as historic steps in the development of absurd theater. The first was Ubu Roi, performed in Paris in 1896, and written by Alfred Jarry, a 23-year-old bourgeois baiter. Ubu is a pear-shaped buffoon-monster and a travesty on middle class values, e.g., thrift, family life, patriotism. He punctuates every third line of dialogue with an excremental word. Ubu Roi furnished the absurdists with their basic attitude: shock the bourgeoisie and slam the Establishment. In a 1923 play, In the Jungle of the Cities, Bertolt Brecht furnished the theater...
Upperclassmen in SGA expressed surprise that the freshmen did not want to have unlimited one o'clocks. Many felt that unless the limit were abolished completely it would be absurd to change it at all. They recalled the limit of 21 one o'clocks several years ago, and added that a constantly increasing number was ridiculous...