Word: bellowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arguments notwithstanding, the crafts of the stage and the short story are entirely distinct: the difference between someone telling a quiet anecdote and someone engaging in a public debate. Only a few writers have managed both with equal felicity, among them Chekhov and Maugham. Such fiction practitioners as Saul Bellow, John O'Hara and Norman Mailer have had little success at playwriting. With the direction reversed, Miller and Williams at least make a better showing...
...tell me not to bellow, and the waitress...
...velt muz men mer yoytse zayn vi far Got aleyn, says the Yiddish proverb. "The world is more exacting than God himself." It is a maxim that runs like a black thread through the fabric of American Jewish literature-from Henry Roth's Call It Sleep to Saul Bellow's Herzog. In Meyer Meyer, Author Helen Hudson follows the pattern by providing a translation of her own. In the secular cities of the earth, grace is granted not to those who reach up to God, but to those who reach...
...opera singers during the 18th century. In those days singers freely ornamented composers' scores with their own improvised embellishments in a style known as bel canto (literally, "beautiful singing") To today's purists, who worshipfully preach note-for-note fidelity to the composer the style is strictly bellow canto. Nevertheless, performances in opera houses and on recordings are now being laced with so many variations on old arias that Tosi would sing...
...from the dual Anglo-American tradition as well as European sources, it is the concern for fiction as a revelation of the truth. The private vision, because it seeks no corroborating evidence, must carry conviction of itself. It is this seriousness-even in the comic vein of a Saul Bellow-which makes Jean-Paul Sartre's satirical portrait of a protoFascist, Childhood of a Leader, seem as frivolous in this company as a mere cartoon. The same quality makes the similarity-a glum but grimly maintained Freudo-Marxist determinism-between Doris Lessing and Italy's Alberto Moravia more...