Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Grandfather's music had always attracted a mentally perverted fringe and those in search of ersatz sex," Wieland says. "But even though the sensual character of his music still drives his fans to semi-craziness, those who seek his sex and not his soul get an incomplete experience."
This is what the reader sees at the outset through the author's acute eyes. But abruptly the quality of vision changes; instead of saying, "Look, deep within this character is a flaw," Novelist Frame begins to say, in effect, "how opaque is the soul, how futile to examine...
The supporting cast is infinitely better than that of the original production. Patrick Hines has made enormous strides with his Gloucester. Patricia Hamilton (Goneril) and Mary Hara (Regan) are a vast improvement over their predecessors. And--though I loathe comparisons--Richard Mathews surpasses Lester Rawlins, whom I considered the finest...
In short, Mr. Carnovsky has for some reason failed to realize that a man who is driven out of his wits by anger and frustration does not go loony; he goes mad! As it is, the character fails to grow, fails to come to grips with his own follies and...
While nominated for an Academy Award in this country, Zorba the Greek has been poorly received in Europe, particularly in Greece where crowds have stormed the theatres in protest. Apparently the Greeks do not like to see their national character portrayed as the personification of animal instinct. The novel by...