Word: beautyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mary's retreat-which is a flight into the past as well-provides the structural unity of the play. Constance Cummings makes her long day's journey not only believable but, in a sense, necessary. With remnants of beauty, she is still the coquette James Tyrone once fell...
Nothing lends the show quite so much strength as Stephen Sondheim's score. It is a beauty, his best yet in an exceedingly distinguished career. The prevailing waltz meter is more suggestive of fin de siècle Vienna than the Scandinavian north, but why carp? In a show...
MILLIONS OF WORDS have by this time been devoted to the study of black music: that unique area of musical expression created by Afro-Americans from the generous heart of their experience. For example, we might agree with Samuel Charters, author of The Poetry of the Blues: "It is in...
By this point, however, Buckholz's bad angel has led him into a region of formidable murk. The stated business of the novel is nothing less than a search for the Unholy Grail-the pewter cup, Buckholz imagines, from which Judas drank at the Last Supper. The searchers are...
Professors of English are not by nature practical men. They are not accustomed to thinking of work and pleasure as mutually exclusive. They are also self-indulgent. They would not dream of saving up Shakespeare for a rainy day. They are also irrational. They do not readily grasp the logic...