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...this recalls the dawn of Greek tragedy. But unlike the Greek plays, Titus Andronicus provides no pity, terror or catharsis. The characters are slain with the casual impersonality of gangsters being picked off by hit men. Among the players, Hutt's Titus grows in stature as the bereaved father, and Galloway's Tamora is a one-woman "wilderness of tigers." Devoid of a moral center, Titus Andronicus nonetheless exerts a perverse fascination, for it glows with the phosphorescence of evil...
...city is still asleep, but not for long. Dawn slowly works its way over the horizon, lighting up a two-car wreck...
These entries from 1939 to 1944 express more than mere temperament; they reveal a whole epoch. The fifth volume of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's confidential writings starts with the dawn of war in Europe, "like the morning after a death," and continues to another death, that of the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery. "I am sad," she notes, "that he never forgave us for our stand...
...dozen years ago inmates at Tucker State prison in Arkansas ran the place. Prisoners convicted of murder toted guns, bullied their fellows into the fields at dawn and laughed them back to their cells at dusk. These prisoner/guards--called trusties--beat other inmates with a devilish tool called a strap, a leather slab with a wooden handle that, when handled "properly," can knock a victim six inches into the air. They tortured them by running pins and razor blades along the soft flesh under their fingernails. They gang-raped them in the barred dormitories where each prisoner slept with...
This does not always come off. One detects (especially in parts of the gold-painted environment, The Royal Tides) a note of theatrical pomp, a weakness for the merely spectacular. But Nevelson's black rooms and her array of white sculpture entitled Dawn 's Wedding-the negative reversal of Moon Garden, every shape blanched and fully visible under the chalky candor of the white paint so that it seems ethereal and removed rather than dense and beckoning-afford an extremely satisfying sculptural experience. They are full of mystery, rigor and the calmly detailed expressive power that...