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...Torvald's obsession. Glucksman also manages to sustain a fine balance between her character's outward uncertainty and inner strength. Her refusal to play the cliched "strong woman" through the first two acts makes Nora's third act awakening all the more shattering. Instead of emphasizing the potentially didactic element of the script. Glucksman convincingly brings out the deeper, more rivelling dilemma of a woman forced to choose-between family and freedom...
...quality which that poet has refined to great advantage in his more recent work. But he almost completely ignores the wonderful humor in most of Plath's poetry--a humor that saves her poetry from becoming an obsessive mythology of self-hatred. A sense of playfulness is the crucial element lacking in much personal poetry as well as other contemporary poetry. And we are surely lost if the poets have forgotten how to play
Geishas are not prostitutes, as is commonly assumed among Americans. But because of the nature of their profession there is a certain risque and taboo element to their life. Geisha are entertainers; they are hired by small gatherings of men for evening amusement at banquets. Geisha perform traditional dances and songs, pour sake for the customers and provide the services of a very well-trained and amusing hostess who make parties run smoothly...
Dalby likes this traditional element and devotes a large amount of her book to descriptions of the kimono and the shamisen--a geisha's musical instrument...
Dalby not only likes the traditional element, but she also likes the world of the geisha. Immersed as she was in it for over a year in 1975, one cannot help but wonder how truly objective she is. She obviously loved the world and found it an attractive way of life. Her personal intimacy with geisha, however, gives the book an appealing quality. Dalby understands the world of flowers and bamboo and does an admirable job of transmitting that understanding to her Western readers who may be more concerned with car imports than understanding the Japanese...