Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GLASS BOOTH. Actor-Author Robert Shaw introduces some precarious psychologizing and implausible "what-if" elements to an Eichmann-like situation in a rerun of the victimization of the Jews and Nazi guilt. Donald Pleasence enlivens an otherwise turgid evening with a memorable performance...
Kahn's way of expressing the indescribable was not even to suggest it, but rather to provide a place for people to reflect. The monument consists of seven heavy, translucent glass piers, each 10 ft. square and 11 ft. high. They will be placed on a 66-ft.-square granite pedestal designed to be built in Manhattan's Battery Park. The New York Parks Department has approved the plan in principle. When installed, the monument will allow visitors to stroll among the piers; the central pier will be open on one side and serve as a small chapel...
...some observers, the chilly, crystalline expanses seem to echo the eternal stillness and emptiness of death. To Architect Kahn, however, quite the contrary is true: "The glass makes the monument sensitive to everything around it and gives it a sense of life and hope rather than of death. One is conscious of light. Light is what we come from; we are born out of light. Light is the maker of all things, of all presences." Furthermore, he feels, the monument "is not accusing. One Pier-the chapel-speaks; the other six are silent...
...genuine argument can be made that sex is one of the few realities left in a world of confused identities." David Cornwell, who as John le Carrè wrote The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and The Looking Glass War, says this in discussing the exploitation of sex by the publishing trade. In his spy novels, Le Carrè himself has ignored the libidinous and gone directly to the problem of the confused identities of bumbling antiheroes. A Small Town in Germany is more a skillful novel of political intrigue than a spy story, but Le Carr...
Counterpunching. Le Carrè has picked up the destructive intramural rivalries of espionage in The Looking Glass War and moved them into the illusion-fed machinations of the diplomatic life. The search, ultimately, is not only for Leo Harting but for clues to the personal identity that Harting managed to retain while in the service of depersonalizing ideological powers. As it turns out, both Harting and Turner have been Counterpunching with a diplomatic shadow world; they are both, says Turner, "looking for something that isn't there." Le Carrè, playing off the man of ideals against...