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...Most of the old-time Democrats don't think much of these people, but from Richard Daley on down they evidently feel that along with blacks and women they're needed to capture elections, and maybe that they're easily cajoled into doing so: "Let's go fishing," said Brecht's angler to the worm...
They moved into an apartment near Detroit's Wayne State University campus. During the day Joni read Bertolt Brecht and Saul Bellow. At night, after completing their cabaret act, the Mitchells were hosts for boisterous all-night poker games often attended by Gordon Lightfoot, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Ramblin' Jack Elliott. But after one year the marriage began to crumble. Joni demanded more independence from her husband, who accuses her of deliberate scene stealing...
...playwright said he'd never heard of Brecht, which surprised me a little even though concentrating on Western art was obviously unfair--few Chinese playwrights are well known in the United States. But none of us had enough background in Chinese art to ask intelligent questions. The dancers said they'd never heard of Nureyev. One actor said he'd read some Shakespeare and found it similar, in some ways, to traditional Chinese drama, but "far removed" from present-day China. One musician said he'd heard some Beethoven but found it "rather far away from our sentiments and needs...
...discussing the masters' ideology, Genovese relies heavily on the writings of Antonio Gramsci, the author of the The Modern Prince who helped to found the Italian Communist party. Gramsci is just one of dozens of the unexpected writers cited in Roll, Jordan, Roll--the others range from Hegel, Brecht, T.S. Eliot and Robert Lowell to historians of Italian slavery and traditional Japan. But Genovese devotes special attention to Gramsci, with his stress on the role played by a society's ruling ideas in ligitmizing--indeed, giving the appearance of inevitability to--its practice, not just among the ruling class...
...Weimar Republic in 1932, is the orphan of modern art: plaintive, clotted with turbulent emotion, snotty and-outside Germany-somewhat inaccessible. Its local significance was immense, its international resonance small; even today, the expressionist works that survive best seem to be in film (Fritz Lang) or theater (Brecht-Weill) rather than in painting...