Two Groups of Women, Weeping
Tragedy is the highest of the dramatic arts. It refines all superficial human differences to an irreducible commonality.
Bellhop Jokes: A Tour de l’Horizon (Look Around)
Is it possible that a country, our beloved country, can emerge intact from our various national hysterias?
Don’t Take Your Daughter Off the Stage, Mrs. Worthington
How did actors come to inhabit our soapboxes, in preference to dentists or plumbers?
White Picket Fence
The nuclear families behind that fence were as broken and troubled as yours and mine.
Boxing Day
Euphemism exists to prettify an object or idea the conscious mind finds unwieldy.
Knife-Swapping and the Martians
How can one possibly trust anything issuing from a source we know to be tainted?
The Prisoner’s Dilemma
We may stand for reason in the face of unjust, loathsome accusations; or we may indict our fellows as a prophylactic, and hope for the best.
The Tunnel and the Truck
When a question has no acceptable answer it may be abandoned. Or one might search for a more useful question.
Give My Regrets to Broadway
Broadway will have become an amusement park, drama and comedy superseded by content, which has then given place to drivel.