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CROWDS AND POWER 495 pp.-Elios Canetti- Viking ($7.50 The gloomiest of modern thinkers have found the human being sex-ridden, despairing or just plain hollow. But Elias Canetti, 57, a Bulgarian-born novelist and playwright, goes further. In this massive, provocative and often brilliant work, he concludes that man is power-mad, and never more so than in a crowd...
Without the sense of identity, intimacy is felt to be a threat to the self, Smith stated. Unfortunately, many men and women who lack identity enter marriage, hoping to overcome "isolation and inner emptiness." What results is a "possessive, pseudo-intimacy," between what Smith called "hollow men and hollow women...
...couple of months. On opening day, April 22, 1964, there will be more than 200 pavilions in all. Judging by the renderings and models already on view, Flushing Meadow will be a maze of pleasure domes, some dazzling, some merely elaborate. Among them: »THE FEDERAL PAVILION, a hollow square hovering over a watery circle designed...
...Hollow Crown. Britain may not be able to budge General de Gaulle, but Britons are having no trouble bowling over Broadway. In a distressingly dreary season, one of the few dramas of distinction is the British holdover A Man for All Seasons. Nothing on the boards is as stylish as The School for Scandal, or saucier than Beyond the Fringe and its off-Broadway sibling. The Establishment. Non-British plays like Tchin-Tchin and The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore are visibly sparked by the highvoltage acting of England's Margaret Leighton and Hermione Baddeley. Even...
...power without law can make laws, I do not know what subject he is in England that can be sure of his life or anything he calls his own." No king is a hero to his courtiers, not for lack of kingly heroism but because courtiers are courtiers. The Hollow Crown is deliciously spiced with the barbed candor of underlings: "King George IV had not been dead three days before everybody discovered that he was no great loss...