Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THAT is how the politician hero of Hogan's Goat, a recent play about the 19th century Irish in Brooklyn, recalls the era when ward politics was one of the few ways in which the immigrant masses could dream of sharing power. The ethnic vote-the vote of "our kind"-has remained part of the American political vocabulary for a century. Big-city bosses operated on the assumption that they could deliver that vote to whatever candidate they chose-all they needed was a Christmas turkey, a memory for the names of the children, and a fluency...
...looking over works, many shown in the current retrospective, Leymarie recalls Picasso's exclaiming, half in frustration, half in despair: "How can a spectator live a picture the way I have lived it? How can anyone enter my dream, my instincts, my desires, my thoughts? Above all, seize what I put into them, perhaps against my own will...
...Hand. Czechoslovakia's Jiří Trnka is the Chagall of cinema. In his 18 puppet films (A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Emperor's Nightingale), he has bodied forth in speaking forms and singing colors a rich world of the spirit that for almost two decades has floated like a magical island in the grey sea of groupthink called Communism. In this tiny (19 minutes) but weighty puppet picture, Trnka (pronounced Trnka) has come right out with a wry but obviously heartfelt statement of the rights and wrongs of man in a totalitarian society...
...Dream. For those who miss the fun and electricity of Yevtushenko's performances, the new collection of his poems will have to suffice. It will be something of a disappointment. Yevtushenko is badly served by his translator, Herbert Marshall, professor of communications at Southern Illinois University. The book abounds with atrocities and dud rhymes-"trees-industries," "linger-lingo," "see-literacy" -that are enough to destroy any kind of communication...
This is a dream-and a poem-that all can not only understand but share...