Word: bittersweetly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.A.R.'s fiction roams imaginatively over a wide landscape-from a Kafkaesque account of a prisoner-of-war interrogation in Viet Nam by Victor Kolpacoff to a bittersweet rendition of a mother's day in Washington Square Park by Grace Paley ("Kitty has three green-eyed daughters and they aren't that great . . . they are no worse than the average gifted, sensitive child of a wholehearted mother and half-a-dozen transient fathers...
Died. Margaret Kennedy, 71, British author, who in 1924 scored an international bestseller with The Constant Nymph, a bittersweet portrait of an erratic musician's seven free-spirited children, produced 17 other novels (1964's Not in the Calendar), most of them skillfully told tales with intricate plots; in Adderbury, Oxfordshire...
Shortly before leaving the Vienna Opera in 1907, Mahler learned that he had a serious heart ailment. He said his farewell to earthly joys and confronted death in the hauntingly bittersweet song cycle Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) and the coolly spiritual Ninth Symphony. Weakened by overwork, he caught a streptococcus infection while struggling feverishly with his Tenth Symphony ("The devil is dancing with me!" he scrawled in the margin), and died at 50 in 1911. His life was incomplete but, as he once expressed it, "I am a musician; that says everything...
...about his game. And in May We Borrow Your Husband?, he is still the consummate pro: his picture swing is smooth, his stroke is completely unmannered yet perfectly controlled, his style is at once artful and impeccable. Yet beneath all the skill lurks an unprofessional but engaging note of bittersweet poignancy...
...Thursday, April 6 NBC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Sidney Poitier is host of the Harry Belafonte production "A Time for Laughter," which flashes back through 100 years of bittersweet Negro humor. Comedy sketches and songs by Belafonte, Diahann Carroll, Dick Gregory, Redd Foxx, Godfrey Cambridge...