Word: corso
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...particularly unusual. Gerald Gillespie's story might have appeared in the Advocate, as could have D. J. Hughes' poem, Mallarme at Tournon. In terms of quality, the poetry in the current issue is rather unrewarding, especially compared with the last issue which included Allen Grossman, Stephen Booth and Gregory Corso. Canticle for Simonetta by Richard Sewell is uneven, at times forced, and fails to achieve an essential opposition. What is left is a good idea unsuccessfully worked out and one or two lines like "Beauty alone is less than life should wear...
...line of straight entertainment The New Theatre Workshop scored a minor triumph Thursday with its presentation of Gregory Corso's In This Hung-up Age. That the author cannot take any credit for originality of situation--six passengers and Beauty stranded on a brokendown bus in the middle of the desert--is no drawback in this case. The language of his characters is fast, vigorous, and funny, and the denouement is grotesquely original. In the cast, Fred Mueller as the Apache, Harry Bingham as the Hipster, James Rieger as the Poetman, and Earle Edgerton as the Tourist are superb caricatures...
Peter Junger's choral poem The Magic Circle, which proceded Corso's play, did not measure up. James Shucter's direction was extremely deft, and together with the precise and sometimes beautiful delivery of Peggy Polk, Nancy Curtis, Keith Gardiner, and Harold Scott, exploited well what the poem had to offer. But to me this was not a great deal. Junger's language is often musical and thrilling, but his images of fallen glory (grey Byzantium, the sleeping emperor, druids) and modern confusion (herds of taxis, flame-winged planes, departing stars) seemed little more than trite. At times...
...liberation. Up to now, it has been allowed to stay in Red hands. Included in the property tentatively slated for seizure are the presses on which the Communist daily L'Unità is printed, the sumptuous headquarters of the CGIL (Communist-run labor federation) on Rome's Corso d'ltalia, a large number of municipal Communist headquarters, numerous seaside resorts, gymnasiums, athletic fields, movie houses. In some cases, the Communists have paid nominal rent or purchase prices, which may make seizure legally difficult or impossible. ¶ Readjustment of "cultural relations," meaning chiefly that if Russia wants...
...corduroy walls of Rome's smart Obelisco Gallery have seen some unusual exhibits lately-churches in flames, frolicking priests, transparent cats gorged on mice and flowers. But last week's show topped them all. Gallery Owner Gaspero del Corso had reached out to Belgium and brought back 28 paintings by an old surrealist funnyman, Brussels' dour little René Magritte (TIME. June 21, 1948). For Romans, it was a first good look at Magritte's sleepy fantasies. Del Corso's enthusiastic verdict: "They are scandalized...