Word: forster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.). Dame Sybil Thorndike and Virginia McKenna in A Passage to India, a dramatization of E. M. Forster's novel about the failure of East to meet West in 1920s India...
Danny Troob's and John Forster's music is a splendid way to cover the script's sins. A good number of the songs sound the same, but it's a good sound and the repetitions are easy to forgive. Troob seems fascinated with a pattern of slow-lead-in, break into new, snappy meter, plant a long dance between the second and third verse. The best of them are straightforward satires--anemic Junior's self-discovery ("Number One and Only You") and a stay-away-from-sin number at the start of the Second Act ("You Can Be Celibate...
...Order of Merit is the most coveted nonpolitical honor to which a Briton can aspire. Membership is restricted to 24 British subjects and is granted directly by the Crown. That honor was fittingly bestowed last week on Novelist-Humanist E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) on the eve of his 90th birthday. The sage celebrated birthday and royal gift quietly with friends, then returned to King's College, Cambridge, where he has lived as an Honorary Fellow since 1946. Age has not dulled his gentle wit. Asked if he would not some day want his death...
BILLY BUDD (London: 3 LPs). Benjamin Britten's music is filled with a mystic intensity that illuminates rather than beclouds the libretto, which was beautifully crafted by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier from Melville's tale of an innocent's execution. The album has been meticulously produced with a cast that includes Peter Glossop as Billy and Peter Pears as Captain Vere: Britten himself conducts...
...first impulse was toward humor, but I soon learned that I wanted to use it for serious purposes." Sheed's first models were the "flat but musical" styles of such Americans as James Thurber and Sherwood Anderson; later, he added the English writers Cyril Connolly and E. M. Forster. Now he describes his fictional ideal as "Flaubert and James with the language of Wodehouse and Perelman...