Word: author
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former inhabitants. One was the Emperor Tiberius, who retired some 1,900 years ago to a mountaintop villa from which, records Suetonius, "condemned persons, after long and exquisite tortures, used to be hurled, on his orders and in his presence, into the sea." The other was British Author Norman Douglas, whose bestselling South Wind (1917) painted a thinly disguised picture of Capri as a haunt of elegant wickedness. Douglas himself was asked to leave Capri by the police when he tried to translate some of his fancies into reality; nonetheless, he established the island in the world's mind...
...salesman. Hausfrauen who have watched him operate in his gleaming white, gadget-spangled kitchen have developed statistically measurable yearnings for what West Germans know as an "American kitchen." Once, after he casually made use of a vegetable slicer called Schneidboy, sales of the gadget soared to 1,500,000. Author of three cookbooks, Wrilmenrod is swamped with offers for testimonials, but insists he is very choosy. "Not even for 100,000 marks would I endorse a recipe using margarine." That, Clemens feels, would destroy the glamour of his show for the audience, whom he addresses as "Verehrte Fein-schmeckergemeinde" (Honorable...
...more interested in character than in plot. For All's Well he just snapped up a Boccaccio tale from a secondary source, complete with the trite gimmick of identification of rings. But he failed to expend the necessary effort on characteriaztion as well. Pascal once said, "Every author has a meaning in which all the contradictory passages agree, or he has no meaning at all." This play contains such passages. For example, the first two acts make real sense only if one assumes a homosexual relationship between Bertram and Parolles; yet the last half of the play precludes this situation...
...Monday, Dean Francis Keppel announced the appointment of two Assistant Professors in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Arthur S. Bolster Jr., a teacher of history at Pelham High School, is the author of "Discipline of Advancing Truth: The Life of James Freeman Clarke." Abraham S. Fischler is presently teaching at Columbia University...
...Aiuola Bruciata, the work receiving its first American performance this week at the Tufts Arena Theater as The Burnt Flower-Bed, was written in 1952, near the end of the last great creative burst of its author, Ugo Betti. It is a play that states the problem of modern nihilism with uncompromising starkness and attempts to press beyond in the reaffirmation of human responsibility. Even a cursory reading of Betti's play in Henry Reed's excellent English translation makes it clear why Betti is being hailed on the continent as an even greater dramatist than Pirandello...