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...decline of an interest in literature and the currently overwhelming concern with public affairs is evident too. Among the 70, only two poets are listed (the late W.H. Auden and Robert Lowell) and four major novelists (Mary McCarthy, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth). Popular critics also appear: The New Yorker's film reviewer Pauline Kael, who is in the third group, a fact that may curl the lip of New York magazine's theater critic John Simon, who just squeaked into the fourth and lowest category. Half of the chosen live within what Kadushin calls "lunch...
Miles Davis. A critic once wrote of W. H. Auden that he wrote great poetry because he was not afraid to write a bad poem. Miles Davis is not afraid of anything; his style has gone through more changes than Richard Nixon's story on Watergate and has held up incomparably better. Still one of the leading jazz trumpeters after a long career, Miles has spawned, through his sidemen, a host of fine jazz groups. His latest transformation is on display all this week. Through Sunday, February 17 at Paul's Mall. Call 267-1300 for information...
...acceptance of a modern master. This assures readers that the every worst about an author is already known and published, and that even if they can't write like Virginia Woolf at least they can enjoy sex. Undergoing this treatment at the moment are Malcolm Lowry, George Orwell, W.H. Auden, and, of course, Virginia Woolf. Occasionally a writer's private life is so juicy that even if he or she is not being prepared for deification, a biography of this sort will appear. A review of the contents of Harold Nicolson's Portrait of a Marriage can easily give...
...congregation uses the sanctuary of a former Westwood synagogue that is now a school for the deaf. The services are part traditional, part free-form. Hebrew prayers, for example, have been augmented with passages of poetry from W.H. Auden, e.e. cummings and others. Israeli Folk Singer Michael Burstein often opens Friday evening worship with Sabbath songs-"audience warm-up before air time," as one member puts it. TV Producer Allan Blye (The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour) serves as cantor, a role he used to perform professionally in Toronto. The synagogue "staff'-including Rabbi Cutler-are all unpaid volunteers...
...many a time we wept for Adonais. But we don't talk about it much any more-I mean, what's to say?" The voice belongs to a New England woman, variously marked by love, marriage, friendship, drink and (of course) intimations of mortality that come, as Auden put it, like sounds of thunder at a picnic...