Word: epilog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unanimously pronounce the most powerful in any opera for years. Like his leading character it is neither lofty nor noble but it effectively describes Wozzeck, like the Wozzeck in Georg Buchner's play (TIME, March 16), as any downtrodden wretch tortured beyond endurance. A per fect ending is the epilog in which Marie's little son hears the news from children in the street, goes on unconcernedly riding his hobby-horse...
...famous short story for presentation on the stage, it was never a play in the strict terms of dramatic construction, but rather the concluding act of the unwritten play that was the previous life of Galsworthy's central character. Old English is at once a portrait and the epilog to a portrait; it is steeped in a mood of finality which would give it dignity even if it were less thoughtfully written. When George Arliss did it on the stage a few critics ventured with their praise the criticism that he seemed too frail and sharpened...
...Epilog by Importer Ambruster: "I am interested only in finding out the fact, and I am going to do it if it strips me of every penny I own and if it takes ten years...
Professor Davison has been presenting a series of concerts during the season not only at Harvard, but also at other colleges throughout the East His program for the afternoon follows: Prelude in G major Bach Fuge, Canzone und Epilog (Fis dur) for organ, women's voices and violin, "Credo in vitam venturi saeculi. "Amen," Karg-Elert Choral Prelude, "O Welt, ich muss dich lassen" Brahms Choral Prelude, "Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" Bach Fuge, Canzone und Epilog (Fis dur) Karg-Elert
...epilog was a jolly lampoon of contemporary foibles, political, artistic, social. Two constables debated upon the dangerous possibilities of two paintings, one blank, one hung upside down.* Three party leaders, a Roman (Stanley Baldwin), a Druid (David Lloyd George), and a Scotchman (Ramsay MacDonald), "fitted with clockwork and vocal powers," directed electoral addresses at Joan Bull (Britain's "flapper vote"), who had to choose between them...