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...defense of the fairy tale provides the hard, glistening surface of Bettelheim's book; the very title The Uses of Enchantment suggests utility over literary delight, therapy before amusement. Deep within the volume are less convincing "proofs" of this attitude. The legends of Snow White, of Hansel and Gretel, of Goldilocks are parsed for every psychological nuance. Here the reader leaves the nursery for what Vladimir Nabokov calls "the fundamentally medieval world of Freud, with its crankish quest for sexual symbols (something like searching for Baconian acrostics in Shakespeare's works) and its bitter little embryos spying, from...
Last week Die Tote Stadt was finally revived by the New York City Opera, with Jeritza, now a remarkably robust and handsome 87, sitting in the fourth row center. Even in the 1920s, Die Tote Stadt was an anachronism. Korngold was to Richard Strauss what Engelbert Humperdinck (Hansel und Gretel) was to Wagner-a brilliant but minor follower. The style of Die Tote Stadt is a lush, clamorous, occasionally schmaltzy orchestral sonorama that lies somewhere between Der Rosenkavalier and Elektra, with special added effects from Puccini, Debussy, Mahler and Rimsky-Korsakov. The best of its vocal moments, like the taunting...
When Southern Cross arrived in Newport, Bond rotated skippers to hone their competitive edge; he did not name Jim Hardy captain until July 28. The promoter brought to Newport Gretel II, Australia's ill-fated challenger from 1970, to serve as Southern Cross's sparring partner, and a retinue of 41, including three of his own sailmakers. Should there be a protest during the race, Bond is ready with a rules expert and lawyer, plus a video-tape camera to record all races for replay. "Expert advocacy," says Bond, "is as much a part of racing...
...where German children hear the originals. During this time, Sendak and Segal winnowed their favorite stories from the original 210. "By the time I was ready to draw," says Sendak, "I felt that the stories were my own." Indeed, he even put his German shepherd Erda into Hansel and Gretel...
...unheard of for two nominees to go like Hansel and Gretel to the Supreme Court." Senator Birch Bayh was talking about Lewis F. Powell Jr. and William H. Rehnquist (TIME, Nov. 1), the two Supreme Court nominees who were being jointly considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bayh, veteran of the Haynsworth and Carswell wars, and the other liberals sought to separate the nominations because Powell was clearly a shoo-in, while Rehnquist was considered somewhat vulnerable. Nixon loyalists on the committee parried the maneuver. After five days of hearings and 827 pages of testimony, they arranged under the rules...