Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most popular choice is marriage. "On being married," Kaufmann writes, "millions of women echo Ruth's beautiful words in the Bible: 'Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.' Henceforth they will make no more fateful decisions; they will leave that to their husbands." For men as well as women, marriage is sometimes only a way of avoiding lonely choices. If joint decisions turn out badly, neither partner need feel responsible; each can claim that, left to his own devices, he might have acted differently. In other cases, marital partners make no decisions...
Truth of Truths (Oak, $9.96; two LPs). Nothing less than both Testa ments, from the Creation and Fall to the Resurrection and Prophecies. A DeMille-like cast of composers, arrangers, soloists, orchestra, chorus and a bored Jim Backus ("Mr. Magoo") intoning into an echo chamber: "I am the living God." Ghastly...
Streetcar offers an echo of that with Blanche's attempt to discover a reason for being and a way to go on in a time and a place which seem to provide neither hope nor comfort. Blanche arrives for her summer's stay with her sister and her sister's husband by riding a streetcar named Desire, transfering to one called Cemeteries and getting off at Elysian Fields--directions which Blanche recites with some appreciation of their import and which put pretty well up front precisely what point in her life she has reached. Unable to accept implication...
...resort to such declasse words as "bullshit." But on his own time Gallette never falters and strikes matches with such extraordinary virtuosity it is surprising he has such a difficult time with his cigar. Darcy Pulliam does nearly as well as Alice and perhaps it was only an echo from the medieval decor that gave some of her speeches the worn and familiar tone of Hollywood Tudor melodrama. At times also Martin Andrucki was more awkward and wooden than the Kurt he portrayed and in the climachi scene with Alice he showed his passion with the grace of a self...
...text provides a good brief biography, describing the scenes and circumstances of Kafka's childhood, his relationship with his God-like father, and the trials of his several engagements. Passages from the fiction, letters, and diaries are printed in the margins and appropriately echo the stone and shadow of the photographs...