Word: caging
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Boston Symphony Orchestra--Symphony Hall, Boston--7:30 p.m.--Seiji Ozawa, conductor--works of Stolzel, Cage, Falla. Info...
Fortunately, Bourjaily has chosen a framework loose and capacious enough to absorb the bad with the good. And his virtues have never been on better display. He can capture American speech and cage it on the page without loss of vitality. His sympathies are generous; his descriptions of the nation's heartland landscapes throb with passion. Because its parts are greater than the sum of its whole, Now Playing at Canterbury will disappoint those who are still searching for that Loch Ness monster of the literary swim, the Great American Novel...
...requires several arduous weeks, not the 24 to 36 hours of a Flint Ridge cave crawl. But caving is difficult enough to call for a rare sort of courage and endurance. A common technique, horrifying to imagine, is to exhale in order to reduce the size of the rib cage, then squiggle along, unable to breathe deeply until the squeezeway widens. To do this in an unknown passage, realizing that rescue is impossible and that the passage may narrow, not widen, is not simply grubby-it is gallant...
...lock the door, hard to leave, probably forever, the little white stucco house in the Peloponnesian town of Argos. The little house was Niki Raffias' dowry when she married Theodosios twelve years ago, and the tears start to her eyes as she speaks of "the wonderful garden and the cage of canaries that sing all day. Now we must leave it all behind. But they tell me America is a nice place." Theodosios Kaffas is determined to make it so. A barber who had to go out of business, a restaurant cook who couldn't earn more than...
...joined the Prussians and Austrians in the forcible partition of Poland. Only two years ago, her troops wrested the Crimea from the Turks. Only 18 months ago, the rebel Cossack Yemelyan Pugachev, who had been ravaging one-third of all Russia, was brought to Moscow in an iron cage and beheaded...