Word: franz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...observer, Franz Schurmann--noting the extraordinary scene of a million people gathered in the great square singing "The East is Red," Mao Tse-tung powerful in his presence though walking slowly and stiffly ... then moving out into the masses on the arm of a teenage girl--spoke of the formation of a new community. I would suggest that this new community, in a symbolic sense, is a community of immortals...
...Empire Builders by Boris Vian, which opened off-Broadway last week as the French playwright's first New York production, nearly a decade after his death at 39. Vian, who was also a novelist, poet, composer, translator, jazz trumpeter and engineer, obviously owed much to the work of Franz Kafka. Ordinary, everyday characters are beset and beleaguered by fantastic circumstances beyond their control-neither exactly allegorical nor neatly symbolic -which fill them with dread. As the play progresses, The Sound drives the increasingly unsettled father into even smaller and poorer apartments. The members of the menage disappear...
...Hell, half the world wants to be like Thoreau at Walden," Painter Franz Kline once remarked, "worrying about the noise of the traffic on the way to Boston. The other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half." He painted the noise, in hurtling compositions that were apt to bear the names of locomotives or place-names of his native Pennsylvania coal country. Together with his fellow abstract expressionists, he split the Manhattan art world of the early 1950s into two camps. The conservatives damned them because their work not only obliterated...
...fellow musician who was studying painting. The more his sideman talked, the more Kanovitz liked what he heard. He enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design, soon moved on to New York, where he got wrapped up in the Greenwich Village group that revolved around Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell. He continued to paint abstract expressionist canvases up until 1962, though privately he enjoyed drawing the figure. "Then," he says, "pop popped...
...people and experiences like a connoisseur. He has known the rich, the beautiful and the talented, and he appears to have put them into his novel as vividly and intimately as in a diary. Freud, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Arnold Schoenberg and Irving Thalberg make cameo appearances. Franz Werfel, Alma Mahler Werfel, Max Reinhardt, and several society beauties of the '30s are only slightly disguised. The author mocks, but he also burnishes his characters with an élan found all too rarely in current fiction...