Word: bleaknesses
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With a career encompassing 25 years that included five novels, a handful of plays and thousands of drawings, paintings and sketches, why isn't Mervyn Peake a more celebrated English literary and artistic hero? A cult figure today, Peake is best known for Gormenghast, his bleak but compelling gothic fantasy trilogy published in the 1940s and '50s about the hierarchy of a fictional castle, Gormenghast, and the Machiavellian machinations of its inhabitants. But he was also an accomplished illustrator, painter and war artist. "If somebody's good at everything, then they're never taken seriously, are they?" muses Chris Beetles...
Visions of a bleak future tend to fall into one of two categories: the sleek, soulless, machine-driven version, or the post-apocalyptic, totalitarian version. Both styles of dystopia got an airing in “Bradbury and Beyond,” which ran at the Loeb Experimental Theatre from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2. The performance, which was produced by Sarah E. Stein ’08 and directed by Marielle E. Woods ’08, adapted two short stories by Ray Bradbury: “The Veldt” and “To the Chicago Abyss...
...neat lines. Nine years later, in 1988, red “demolition” signs abound and a lone man walks down the middle of the street, perhaps in avoidance of the filthy sidewalks. The 1996 photograph, however, shows hints of new life: plants lend color to the bleak scene and children ride bikes in the street. By 2004, three large trees grow where there would not have been room in 1979, and four boys play outside. “View Along Fern St. from 10th St.,” with its focus on change over time, is in many...
...bleak. Western leaders may be less inclined to support dissidents than they once were, but it is easier than ever for those opposed to Putin to get their message out. In Soviet times, dissidents had to smuggle their news and thoughts to a wider audience through surreptitious meetings with foreign reporters or crudely printed tracts. Today, any blogger with a grievance can become a dissident, and the Internet is the new samizdat. And in the past two years alone, Russians have lodged almost 20,000 individual grievance cases at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France; some...
...suggested, these critical catcalls reflect less the quality of the film and more the prevailing fashions of the art-house intelligentsia: in favor of bleak austerity, dismissive of sweeping sentiment. But on its own terms, this is a daring and impressive achievement...