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...Visit brought the Lunts to Broadway-for a rumored final visit to Broadway-in a theater piece of strikingly acrid power. Adapted by Maurice Valency from the German of Swiss Playwright Friedrich Düurrenmatt, The Visit begins in light colors and comedy guise, suddenly to darken the face of its canvas, to blacken the hearts of its characters. A grisly fable of a woman's vengeful hate, it shows a whole community relentlessly succumbing to greed...
...late Cubist Painter Juan Gris. In the gallery above the fire hung more than 150 works by famed 19th century French Pointillist Painter Georges Seurat, including four of his seven major canvases, lent by U.S. and European collectors (TIME, Jan. 20). Only one closed fire door stood between the acrid smoke and scorching heat and the pick of the museum's permanent collection, richest and choicest trove of modern masterpieces in the world...
...echoes of folk tunes, broadly brooding melodies that reminded listeners of the good Finnish earth and established Sibelius as the composer of unfettered nature. With his occasional Nordic rages, he sounded like Brahms gone berserk, but he was also capable of a strongly appealing lyricism. His symphonies, with their acrid dissonances, their brassy shouts and cool, lonely instrumentation, seemed even closer to the stark northern land. Although Sibelius testily denied the implication that he wrote music merely descriptive of nature, he would say: "The seasons are like movements in a symphony. Spring is adagio, the fall is scherzo...
...freeing their fellow prisoners. "We're hungry," they shouted, and when nothing happened, they began tossing machinery and empty food carts into the courtyard. The more diligent of the inmates began making bonfire piles of stools and pallets. Others ripped off cell doors to feed the flames. As acrid fumes rose from a score of separate fires, eight squadrons of gendarmes, along with truckloads of municipal police and four companies of firemen, rushed to the scene. Inside the prison, Warden Hyacinthe Mariani, accompanied by three high-ranking Paris police officials, begged and pleaded with the prisoners for a restoration...
...characters he sets up as targets not only have clay feet but clay minds and clay hearts as well. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes is his longest, cleverest and most annihilating display of literary marksmanship to date, and after it is all over, what hangs in the air is the acrid odor of an unrelenting misanthropy...