Asked if he saw a danger of rightist terrorist groups emerging, a sort of "Brown Army Faction" that would parallel the Red Army Faction of the 1970's, Mr. Fischer said such a possibility was being watched "very carefully".
Dana herself emerges as a sort of variation on Rappaccini's daughter, depicted in the Hawthorne story of that name.
The elegant idler Ellin, meanwhile, emerges as a sort of proto-Peter Wimsey as he undertakes to investigate the disappearance – having perhaps, the narrator muses, "something of the amateur detective in him".
The actress who plays Vanda is required to metamorphose from a twenty-first-century street-smart New Yorker into the nineteenth-century European cosmopolitan of the Sacher-Masoch play-within-the-play, and even have the emotional extravagance to suggest the goddess Aphrodite, who emerges as a sort of fabulous eleven-o'clock number.
What emerges is a sort of Gospel According to Gurney that is only occasionally funny and seldom insightful.
Alexei, by the end, has emerged as a sort of hero himself.
What is emerging is a sort of talking-points brief in defense of the administration's actions.
"I think art emerged as a sort of medicine to deal with the fact that we are afraid, alone, small and weak in a dangerous world.
"Below the delicate line of the violin part," he recalls, "slender but robust, compact and commanding, he had suddenly become aware of the mass of the piano part beginning to emerge in a sort of liquid rippling of sound".
While the tried-and-true spiritual leaders of the 1980's, like Dr. Wayne Dyre of "Your Erroneous Zones" fame, are still drawing the masses on PBS, there is a new breed emerging -- a sort of boy-of-wonders-next-door, and Dr. Pearl is the prototype.
