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...world view and Marat's-comes off poorly. The abstract discussions of what the revolution was about, where and why it failed. and what the failures mean about mankind. remain abstract. unembodied in subtler means of expression. What makes this production so fine are the performances of the lesser characters-the inmates... "the people" in metaphor. These roles are largely non-verbal, and Director Charles Bernstein has achieved with his very raw staging (no lights, props, or costumes, and no raised stage) a Grotowski energy level without accenting his particular techniques for achieving that level, as the Loeb production...
...find chapter and verse in Lenin to justify their course. If they react to it-as seems far more likely-by further repression, that too will be ratified by the appropriate citations from the charter myth. Lenin's ultimate impact on his country will be decided by lesser men, whose only superiority over him is that they are alive...
...visit to the U.S. The author of All on a Summer's Night went on to offer some puckish notions as to how an American aristocracy might be titled. First minister in the court of King Richard would be Spiro, Duke of Maryland; then would come such lesser dignitaries as Knight of the Garter Henry Kissinger and Companion of Honor Bebe Rebozo. In the Midwest, it would be Earl Humphrey of Minnesota. And in the Southwest, the vast estates of Earl Pedernales and Lady Pedernales-"Not," Edelman cautioned, "Lady Lady Bird...
Born with Ability. Yet Casals admits that he has reservations about the cello. He prefers conducting, but avoids any claim of greatness in either métier. From a lesser master, such self-deprecation might seem disingenuous, but Casals clearly means it. "I was born with an ability, with music in me," he explains. "No special credit...
Imagination is, however, a kind of ersatz experience. When you see a starving child, you share his suffering through empathetic identification, through imagination. If someone who has seen a starving child is able to relay the sensory image of his perception, he can stimulate your imagination, to a lesser degree, to understand the child's suffering. If your learning is confined to reading non-empathetic accounts of the effects of starvation on, say, a million people, you are little better off than when you started. To understand, you have to translate the "facts" into examples from your former experience...