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Scott waxes intense in defense of Indians, both as a play and as an expression of a monstrous injustice. The treatment of the native American is one of the darkest -- and most often ignored--chapters in this country's history, he says. Tonto and Land o'Lakes butter and every television Western you've ever seen only add ridicule to atrocity. "The play is today's headlines," Scott says. In the Times that day -- the story of an aged Indian kicked, beaten and mutilated to death by a group of drunken whites at a dance...
...course, there never has been a true Age of Reason, a time when everything made sense. Even in the darkest times, some men have embraced as an ideal Plato's famous symbol of Reason: the charioteer masterfully reigning in his two horses, passion and will. But Western civilization has too often made of Plato's metaphor a sort of public memorial, something that men absently tip their hats to on history's Sunday afternoons. Even a man of reason like Santayana was forced to acknowledge man's habitual flight from its rule with his cover phrase...
MORE THAN Hamlet and more than Lear, Macbeth and the movies are made for each other. Of the great Shakespearean tragedies it is the darkest, the bloodiest, the most physical and most unearthly. Macbeth has everything--slaughter, madness, treachery, revenge, ghosts and witches, and at one time or another, Griffith, Welles and Kurosawa have each taken a turn at its adaption. It is an invitation to extravagance...
...career of John Lee Hooker, the darkest blue of bluesmen, was given a boost by his association with Canned Heat. Hooker 'n Heat (Liberty) is a double album, half of which is John Lee with the band and the other half John Lee alone or sparingly accompanied (usually by the late Alan Wilson on harp.) The alliance is natural, as Canned Heat's sound is chiefly derived from the boogie beat which is Hooker's trademark. Alan Wilson and Bob "Bear" Hite are serious blues scholars; that they are actively promoting their heritage, not merely exploiting it, makes them almost...
...imaginative recreation of nature rather than a substitute for it. The imitation of nature ranges from the exquisite blink in an automaton pirate's eye, with lifelike eyelashes and wrinkles on his skin, or the marvel of transparent ghosts dancing around a huge hall, to the vulgar ride through darkest Africa, with your guide shooting at rhinos, hippos, and elephants. One can agree with John Ciardi's estimation of the place is seeing the "shyster in the bacroom of illusion, diluting his witches brew with tapwater, while all his gnomes worked frantically to design gaudier and gaudier designs...