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Retribution and reward are distributed among these four with the fitness of a fairy tale, and that, in effect, is what The Knack is. It's theme is the old Grimm Brother favorite of feeling's triumph over unfeeling, innocence's defeat of evil. Would a rake like Tolen be likely to harbor a secret dread of unjust arrest for rape? Well, no, but we accept his breakdown because we are more interested in seeing that he gets his comcuppance than in justifying it psychologically. And surely our wishes rather than our reallife expectations are satisfied by the simultaneous flowering...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: The Knack... | 9/22/1965 | See Source »

Captain Ben Brooks salvaged a little of Harvard's pride by pummelling Ron Grimm of Rutgers 11-2 at 191, but Paul Goble, the Scarlet Knight's undefeated heavyweight, decisioned Harvard's Tack Chace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Bow to Rutgers | 2/25/1965 | See Source »

Wise Woman falls somewhere be tween opera and Broadway musical. Adapted from a fairy tale, it is Grimm for grownups, a Rabelaisian romp peopled with a thieving mule driver, an irascible king, a too-wise queen, and a trio of drunken tramps who keep the action crackling along at a raucous, laugh-a-minute pace. The score is uniquely Orff-primitive rhythms and simple, rustic melodies, punctuated with fanfares and percussive outbursts. Orff, 69, Germany's most famed contemporary composer, believes that "melody and speech belong together," and in his Singspiel style he strives for a marriage in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Grimm for Grownups | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...When they saw what Grimm was doing one of the men gave a choked cry and stumbled back into the wall and began to vomit. Then Grimm too sprang back, flinging behind him the bloody butcher knife. 'Now you'll let white women alone, even in hell,' he said. But the man on the floor had not moved . . . From out the slashed garments about his hips and loins the pent black blood seemed to rush like a released breath . . . upon that black blast the man seemed to rise soaring into their memories forever and ever. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Curse & The Hope | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

...Biennale fortnight ago hung the disconcerting possibility that even as this famed old exhibition displayed its own mediocrity and disorganization, a lesser-known art festival 400-odd miles to the north was preparing to put on a top-grade show. The newer exhibition is at Kassel, where the Brothers Grimm lived, located at the geographic heart of Germany, and it is called Dokumenta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Rosetta Stone at Kassel | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

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