Word: emotionalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ANYONE WHO HAS read Auden's earlier poetry must wonder why his genius petered out in this painful, disappointing way. Some have felt Auden's return to Christianity, capitalism and official morality to be the prime betrayal of his talent. But he continues to write great poetry after these ideological...
THIS HEIGHTENED awareness of private neurosis alerts her to the general taint and prompts an interesting argument. In a review of Tennessee Williams's play, The Rose Tatoo, Maxwell Geismar--a Marxist critic--deplores Williams's detachment from the mainstream of American literature. Convinced that literature should be a function...
The lack of any feeling behind all of these deceptions reflects the hollowness of Chee-Chee. In the Pirandellian wilderness of mirrors and puppets, emotion at least must be real. Artistically, it is emotion which must charge Pirandello's otherwise intellectualized prose with dramatic truth, as he well knew: the...
Triumvirat's set lasted about forty-five minutes, the last ten minutes of which was marked by a noticeable tenseness in the audience that lasted through the assemblage of Reed's sound set. Eventually the lights were dimmed and three silhouettes took their place beside their instruments. As the flood...
German expressionism, which flowered between the late 1800s and the collapse of the Weimar Republic in 1932, is the orphan of modern art: plaintive, clotted with turbulent emotion, snotty and-outside Germany-somewhat inaccessible. Its local significance was immense, its international resonance small; even today, the expressionist works that survive...