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...solid closed system of the Houses forces visitors to meet its standards. Intellectually, a girl and corporation executive face exactly the same standards when they enter a House, standards particularly focused on a fast and rather flashy kind of verbal skill that is quite rare outside the academic world and its peripheries. These standards rapidly make the Houses and the college into a closed system that rarely meets outsiders on their own terms...
...face of Europe during the Thirty Years' War and tragically loses her three children. Brecht's reflections on peace and war are deeply ironic, but Anne Bancroft lacks the depth for her part. Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill, puts its characters on a kind of verbal couch for 4½ hours, but the amateur psychoanalyzing currently seems both comic and a trifle freudulent. Star Geraldine Page rings as true as 14 carats. Enter Laughing, by Joseph Stein. There is an improvisational air to this play that lends freshness to a stalely familiar genre, the Jewish family...
Robbins has shown no sense of the play's heroic proportions. He has turned Mother Courage into a wit; her retorts, her quips, the timing of her speech is better suited to Shaw or Wilde than to Brecht. Her power becomes verbal; its physical and emotional aspects fade. Minor characters, too were misdirected or badly cast. Ignoring Brecht's colorful human vignettes, Robbins simply instructed the peripheral figures to recite their lines (and they didn't even do that accurately...
Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill, puts its characters on a kind of verbal couch for 4½ hours, but all of the amateur psychoanalyzing currently seems both comic and a trifle freudulent. Nevertheless, Star Geraldine Page rings as true as 14 carats...
...sleep of a few years, the week's rumblings would at first have seemed quite familiar, reminiscent of earlier cold war crises. But closer examination might indicate a profound change. There was a crisis in Laos that might prove to be painful and prolonged. But missing were the verbal and psychological accompaniments of the cold war crises of the '50s: the apprehension that the scales of power might be about to tip against the West, the warnings that a climactic showdown might loom ahead...