Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AND time," writes Book Reviewer Ted Kalem on page 100 of this issue, is "a metronome of disaster." Small t, of course. His discussion concerns the savagely humorous themes of the late German playwright Bertolt Brecht, and the entire Books section this week consists of his report on a new...
No Zeal. The history of Laos since then has revolved around the fact that the central Laotian government has never been able or energetic enough to defeat Souphanouvong in war. or to deal with him in peace. The princelings who took over in Vientiane, led most often by Prince Souvanna...
Ironic Significance. Part of the current vogue for Bertolt Brecht is that the whole world has bad dreams. His treatment of the great themes is not always secure. Love he customarily handles as parody, death as an animal calamity, and time as a metronome of disaster. He brings full authority...
THE WATCHMAN, by Davis Grubb (275 pp.; Scribner; $3.95), is the latest of the author's marrow-chilling tales of good and evil, written in a style compounded of Hans Christian Andersen imaginativeness and American Gothic hyperbole. His Night of the Hunter (1954), a surefooted, poetic horror story of...
The evening had the makings of disaster. The opera was Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda, an obscure chronicle of intrigue and infidelity in medieval Italy, which flopped at its Venice premiere in 1833 and had not been done in the U.S. for a century. The American Opera Society'...