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...contem porary translation. Because he regards Goethe's Faust as untranslatable, he thinks English versions are "a waste of time," though he acknowledges that they "may be of help to students incapable of learning German or unwilling to take the time to do it." He agrees completely with Edmund Wilson's celebrated verdict that Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin is unreadable. Lately, Manheim has been outraged by the praise lavished on the new English version of Remembrance of Things Past. Manheim, who has translated Proust's letters, says, "The first translator...
Admittedly, mudslinging and rhetoric has always played a prominent role in elections everywhere. And arguably, the media's excessive assault on Ferraro and her husband this fall was, by comparison to the treatment of candidates like Thomas Eagleton and Edmund Muskie, mild...
King Lear recounts the title figure's rejection of his youngest daughter, Cordelia, and betrayal by his other two daughters, Goneril and Regan. An interrelated sub-plot tells how the bastard Edmund discredits his legitimate brother Edgar and claims the lands of their father, Duke of Gloucester. Simple stories, but Shelley called this play, "the most perfect specimen of dramatic poetry existing in the world...
Among the evil characters, the bastard Edmund (Christopher McCann) most convincingly reveals and revels in malice. As Goneril, Kirsten Girous, gives the only unsatisfactory performance in the cast. (It is necessary not to have one's hand covering one's face at least half the time one is on stage, in order for the gesture to have a dramatic impact...
...former Vice President Henry Wallace became editor, before his left-wing campaign for President. But by 1952, the magazine had returned to the Democratic Party mainstream. Almost never profitable, it drew its funding from a succession of wealthy sponsors and its opinions from editors, including Walter Lippmann and Edmund Wilson. Peretz, a Harvard social sciences teacher who inherited some money and whose wife is an heiress, revamped both the magazine's politics and its eclectic cultural section: it covers primarily scholarly books, theater (reviews by Robert Brustein), movies (reviews by Stanley Kauffmann) and, says Literary Editor Leon Wieseltier, "anything...