Word: grimm
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There is an authority in Sendak's line detail and composition that permits comparison with such illustrators as John Tenniel and Edward Lear. His Grimm pictures draw on a tradition that encompasses not only the lessons of 15th and 16th century engraving but the lyricism of English illustrators of the 1860s. There is even a personal touch. The stocky shapes and inward gaze of some of Sendak's bearded peasants suggest the vanished rural world of Polish Jewry that Sendak's father migrated from early in the century...
Nobody could be clearer about the incomprehensibility of the world than Franz Kafka. Novels such as The Trial and The Castle, stories such as "The Metamorphosis," "The Hunger Artist" and "The Burrow" are the Grimm's fairy tales of the modern cloven spirit. Ordinary men awake to find they are helpless insects, or are found guilty of unknown crimes by unknown judges. One man wastes away in a cage, not because he is being starved but because he has never found the kind of food he might want. No grails are to be found in Kafka, no word...
...Masters program at Carnegie Tech, no less), and Nina Faso, who directed this Boston production, have provided the show with enough stage business to make this the greatest story theater ever told. Only, in place of the respect and awe with which Paul Sills has treated the Brothers Grimm, Godspell is full of the good-natured self-mockery of the Great White...
...Northeastern possesses any strength, it is in the mound staff. Sophomore lefthanders Rich Patchett and Rick Grimm are the aces. Patchett, although only 1-2 on the year, owns a 0.50 ERA and has struck out 23 batters in 37 innings. Grimm is 2-1 and had a no-hitter going for seven innings against Brown...
...Patchett and Grimm are pretty fair pitchers." Stuart said. "But neither should give Harvard any trouble...