Word: fausts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow last September West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer made a bargain. Longtime traffickers in human souls, the Communists offered to ship some 10,000 prisoners of war home to Germany, if Adenauer would accept one Russian. Like Faust's bargain with the devil, the deal was calculated to make...
...Horton's statement followed an announcement by Clarence H. Faust, president of the FAE, of the establishment of a $500,000 program under which, degree-bearing colleges and universities may apply for individual grants to experiment for "more effective deployment of teaching faculties...
...Tales of Hoffmann, first produced in 1881, four months after Offenbach's death, was a smash. The French, who wisely distrust overly sweet wines, have always had a weakness for sweet opera, and much of Hoffmann fits into the sucre fashion of Gounod's Faust, Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila, etc. When it tries to get serious, it often just turns watery. But the score, if well played, always bubbles with its own kind of wit and Gallic lyricism...
Though in his day Delacroix won even Goethe's praise for his Faust drawings, much of his theatrical subject matter-triumphant crusaders, fierce sultans and pashas, sultry harem girls-today seems mawkish. Probably only his scenes drawn on the barricades during the 1830 revolution still hold men's imagination. But if Delacroix's content is dated, his art is not. He attacked his craft with an iron will, raising color to a central, expressive role and making discoveries in form and line that still delight...
...lively Monroe Doctrine; championing the playwright at the end, it provides a weirdly solemn Declaration of Independence. (By this time, in Hollywood plays, integrity should be seen and not heard.) And in all the final putting things to rights, there is no trace of irony. If Hollywood filmed Faust, Faust might be expected to beat the rap. If he beats the rap in a play at Hollywood's expense, surely the tongue should make the cheek at least faintly protrude...