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...Marvin's Hickey has the hype and the patter but only a portion of the necessary bravura. He seems to be wrestling with the vivid memory of Jason Robards in the same role, a performance of such passion that it became definitive. It may be unfair for an actor to carry such a burden, but Marvin does not carry it well. His Hickey is tentative, almost halting...
...Jason Berry, a white southerner who served as Charles Evers' press secretary during Evers' unsuccessful campaign for governor of Mississippi in 1971, has recently published a book which contributes much to our understanding of the political adaptation of southern blacks. Berry's book is a straightforward report of what happened during the campaign without any of the excesses of emotionalism that have plagued other authors who have written on-the-scene accounts of civil rights activity. Berry's most valuable contribution is that he isolates a number of key political factors which make electoral success in Mississippi, and by extension...
...THERE are other noblemen desiring the kingdom of Corinth: Paidoboron, the weather-beaten visionary of the North, who reads in the stars impending doom; and Koprophoros, the mystic Asiatic, who suggests finally that reason alone is not good enough in Jason's absurd world, and that men cannot deny the passions of their bodies. The philosophical argument is set: reason vs. love, mind vs. body, nature vs. civilization, law vs. chaos. And through it all there is another voyage. John Gardner too, has set out on an impossible quest. Oddly enough he has Jason pronounce his presence...
...best approach then, to Jason and Medeia is prescribed by the philosopher-critic, William Gass. In terms of esthetics, Gass is probably Gardner's strongest source (indeed, Kropopros's final philosophical argument in Jason is based on one of Gass's essays). According to Gass, fiction has too long been regarded as a way of looking at reality, when it is, in fact, an addition to it. The author is not mirroring the real world, he's creating a new one--a world of language and ideas, where character and plot become subordinated. Jason and Medeia is just such...
...obvious prat-falls of the metafiction, and certainly of this poem, is its lack of warmth. Only mathematicians could tolerate a steady diet of these theoretical enterprises. But taken on its own level of the idea, Jason and Medeia is intriguing...