Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some YEWESSERS dwell in apartments, where they live on either side of a flimsy medicine cabinet. All others live in white split-level houses. The males are cranky in the morning and astonished when the coffee is not bitter or the breakfast is palatable. Then they beam and demand to know the name of the product, which they repeat nine times. The wives then proceed to their day, which consists of eight hours of unmitigated jealousy and fear. The jealousy is exhibited at wash time. During this period they stare enviously at their neighbor's laundry, which is always...
Brecht and Weill are so well-known for Threepenny Opera that their other masterpieces are often ignored. Sarah Caldwell is presenting The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. The libretto, as bitter as any Brecht ever did, concerns a city whose only crime is if you cannot pay. Too bad most of us cannot pay for the tickets: the ones left are from $10 to $18. The sensible way to see Boston Opera Company productions is to enroll in their open-rehearsal subscription series...
...most fertile careers, but as the mark of a great wave of art at its ebb. Continual, radical change has become a constant for all the arts, but the leading figures of what now appears as the classical period of modernism are gone: two years ago Stravinsky; after the bitter silence of his last years, Pound; and now Picasso. Not for a long time, and perhaps never again, will any single artist create a revolution as fundamental as Picasso...
...plays and musicals ranged over Coward's entire spectrum of talent and taste from the faintly wicked ménage à trois of Design for Living to the spectral fantasy of Blithe Spirit, from whipped cream operettas like Bitter-Sweet to music hall antics like Tonight at 8:30 (with Gertrude Lawrence) from Kiplingesque tunes of glory in Cavalcade to the hilarious battle royal of the sexes, Private Lives. In the film Brief Encounter, Coward even dropped his customary mask of urbane detachment to record a tenderly poignant tale of middle-aged love...
None of these ideas are as yet majority views in the Western world, and they may never be. They may provoke nothing more than bitter and fruitless confrontation, sundering consensus and paralyzing productive thought. Their critique of progress and action could well lead to a new quietism, a readiness to accept things as they are rather than to work for things as they might be. In a more hopeful vein, the interaction of the alternate views with prevailing notions may prove to be a beneficial force, leading to a re-examination and refinement of basic ideas about man and society...