Word: fauns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jimmy Porter's women should be alike and they weren't. Alison and Helena are well-bred, stiff, a little nervous -- they'll have an aura of vestal virginity about them forever. But Emily Sisson (Alison) played a trembly faun while Tracy Goss. (Helena) played a la-de-dah matron. So at the end we concentrated on an antique question: which type woman will Jimmy wind up with? Instead we should be watching Jimmy's final gesture of abandon...
...overall theatrical impact." His first full-length ballet was a total-theater version of The Three Musketeers, a romp-and-stomp spectacle in which the Danish swashbucklers made Douglas Fairbanks look like a party poop. Later, he enlivened and internationalized his programs with Afternoon of a Faun by America's Jerome Robbins, Card Game by South Africa's John Cranko, Aimez-vous Bach by Canada's Brian MacDonald, and Agon by Denmark's First Eske Holm, a Flindt protege. Brash, bristling with energy, Flindt has reorganized the training methods of the company and its dance school...
...forest maiden of Indian legend had tiny faun feet that left footprints in the form of lotus blossoms. A 10th century emperor of China, delighted by the tale, commanded one of his concubines to bind her feet in a faunlike configuration and dance among the petals of a giant golden lotus. The emperor's concubine, if Chinese tradition is correct, was the Judas deer who led millions of Chinese women down a thousand-year trail of torture. The cruel custom of footbinding spread rapidly from court to commons, and continued unabated until Sun Yat-sen's revolution...
...popular, overplayed works which most often reveal the real character of a conductor. Leinsdorf's accounts of the Meistersinger Prelude, the Prelude to an Afternoon of a Faun, and Till Eulenspiegel, all preceding the Brahms, only further confirmed the painful facelessness of his style. Behind his strange podium histrionics and overliterate interpretations lies a dominant inability (or worse, an unwillingness) to truly communicate with his musicians. Amid this pedestrianism, most of Till's grotesque humor was lost, along with the overt charm of the Debussy Prelude. Season after season of such readings serve only to dull the sensibilities of entire...
...collection proves, Faulkner was particularly busy from 1950 onward. Far from being a recluse, he reported on the Kentucky Derby for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, wrote on a variety of subjects for other magazines, and took a lively interest in public affairs. But just as his recently republished verse, The Marble Faun and A Green Bough (TIME, Nov. 26), showed that he was not much of a poet, this collection indicates that he possessed woefully uneven talents as a speaker, essayist and letter writer...