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...broad seas. It seemed a cruel paradox of the times that man could conquer alien space but could not master...
Beware of Tyrone Guthrie bearing Greek gifts. The pity and terror of tragedy are alien to his impish nature. He has an irresistible urge to inject modernity into a classic through props, stage tricks and character stunts rather than to extract what is timelessly significant in the play. He is more like an M.C. introducing novelty acts than a director exploring drama. All of these traits mar his direction of the Minnesota Theater Company's The House of Atreus. The production is ambitious in intent but puny in passion, execution and depth...
...said they voted for Perez Jimenez because in the old dictatorial days, Perez Jimenez' police goons belted the bandits before they had a chance to rob anybody. Under the new democratic regimes, there seems to be more police restraint and crime in the streets, a refrain not entirely alien to the recent U.S. campaign...
McClelland is obviously interested in formal, traditional calligraphy. The exhibit includes "The Whale," an old English poem which he wrote out in insular uncial letters on a regular page layout. Both the language and the letters are alien--they could be written in Islamic script and have equivalent elegant linear formality. But the letterlines and page forms have a universal meaning independent of phonetics or linguistics. They be-speak exoticness, magnificence, and respect-compelling beauty...
LIKEWISE, Indian, the better and more serious piece, runs amuck. Arnold has failed to see that Horovitz was not writing just a sharp TV script about the brutal terrorization of a non-English speaking alien lost in New York. Rather, this play is foremost a work about communication. Joey and Murph, the two violent toughs, are as lost as the Indian. They find themselves in a world where their mothers are whores, love has no relevance to them, and nothing makes any sense. They must step on a helpless creature, if only to prove to themselves that they are alive...