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		<title>Deconstructed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 01:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack L. B. Gohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I knew from having my ear well trained over the preceding decade what a good song sounded like. I knew what the proper approach to literature looked like. I knew that mysticism didn’t sell ice cream. And now I was in a world where no one who ran the show cared what I knew; they thought they knew better and were going to do it their way.]]></description>
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		<title>POTUS v. SCOTUS: There Are No Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 13:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack L. B. Gohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When, at his confirmation hearings, Chief Justice Roberts claimed his job was just calling balls and strikes, he was being disingenuous. The very concept of balls and strikes presupposes a strike zone, and constitutional interpretation is full of competing strike zones. In fact, there aren’t even reliable rules for choosing among these strike zones.]]></description>
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		<title>Off- and Off-Off-</title>
		<link>http://www.thebigpictureandthecloseup.com/blog/?p=3129</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack L. B. Gohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it more important for a memoirist to avoid inflicting pain on those close to him or to tell the truth as he remembers it? Is the allure of suicide to be taken on its own terms or treated with the taboo our society generally imposes upon it? Which should sway the thinking person: the less than conclusive evidence for God’s existence and meaning in the universe or the less than conclusive evidence against God and meaning?  There is not going to be an objectively final resolution to these problems. Should drama therefore not “go there”?  And if it does “go there,” must the dramatist furnish a right answer? Not in my book.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Retooling Makes REP’s LAS MENINAS Strong and Tragic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack L. B. Gohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was intrigued as soon as I heard that Director Eve Muson was bringing the show to a professional company. My sense was that Muson felt she could build a better product on the same platform of stars, costume and set. She was right. The end product is a modern historical tragedy that obviously speaks directly to contemporary racial and gender issues but also past them to the human condition, as all great tragedy does.]]></description>
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		<title>Sanctified Skullduggery: INCORRUPTIBLE at UMBC</title>
		<link>http://www.thebigpictureandthecloseup.com/blog/?p=3098</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack L. B. Gohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The monastery must now meet the demand for an “incorruptible,” a corpse that never decomposes, the Rolls-Royce of relics. Marie seems ready to be pressed into service over what may be her dead body. And only a bona fide miracle will save the day.]]></description>
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		<title>Imagining A Lot(tery)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack L. B. Gohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lennon’s voice comes across as exhausted by sadness. And it speaks to me because that’s how I feel after this close encounter. I could have been a war casualty; I’m not, thank God. But I tell myself I must never forget what it felt like nearly to have been one. And I never do.]]></description>
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		<title>We First By Ourselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack L. B. Gohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trouble was, if both of you were growing in unpredictable ways, were busy exploring, what would happen when each of you had grown into someone new? Could a marriage sustain such developments? One could not know for certain in advance.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Hunger Games: The Politics Is Ever Balanced</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack L. B. Gohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hunger Games plays it safe, riffing equally on narratives of both left and right in our country, in a way that gives everyone something to like and little to hate. It will resonate for you, whatever you believe.
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		<title>Sometimes the Path Strays from You: INTO THE WOODS at Center Stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack L. B. Gohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The folklore passed on from parents to children under the deceptively superficial name of fairy tales is profound. Fairy tales are timeless because the kitchen drudge who yearns to become a princess, the little girl vanquishing a wolf encountered on the way to grandmother’s house, the simpleton who sells the family cow for a handful of magic beans, and their kindred, are archetypes of each of us, at various moments in the trajectories of our lives.  As such, there is actually nothing superficial about them.]]></description>
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		<title>Contraception, an Unrepresentative Church, and Unresponsive Courts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack L. B. Gohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catholic turf should not be the bishops’ to rule in the first place. The hospitals and the universities were built with the funds and the blood, sweat and tears of generations of all Catholic believers, and should by all rights belong to all of their successors, the entire body of the faithful. Instead of acting like the in-title-only trustees of these institutions, accountable to those who built them and their successors, the hierarchy behave like the equitable owners.  And if you think these would-be owners are in favor of religious freedom for the rest of us in the Catholic fold, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you.]]></description>
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