Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Remind Me

I was paging through John Lahr's 1973 collection of essays, Astonish Me:  Adventures In Contemporary Theatre.  Lahr, son of Bert, was in his early 30s, and the book has the confidence, and fiery style, of youth.  But what's most noticeable is the "contemporary" part, though not how Lahr may have intended.  His apercus may not be much, yet I couldn't help but smile at his reflexive need to remind us a number of times that Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew are psychotic killers.  Makes you wonder how quaint most of today's firebrands will one day sound.

(Reminds me, vaguely, of the episode of Newhart where he married his wife a second time.  He pulled out the old vows he wrote, but decided to skip the references to Cambodia.)

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't think opinion on Nixon and Agnew changed since then.

6:41 AM, April 13, 2011  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I wonder if John Lahr's opinion has changed on anything since then.

9:09 AM, April 13, 2011  

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