Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quantitative terms, the 20th century seems more death-ridden than any other. Yet mass death is strangely impersonal; an 18th century hanging at Tyburn probably had more immediate impact on the watching crowd than the almost incomprehensible statistics of modern war and calculated terror have today. In the last century, Byron, Shelley, Keats and a whole generation of young poets haunted by romanticism and tuberculosis could be "half in love with easeful Death," wooing it as they would woo a woman. Even before World War I, German Poet Rainer Maria Rilke could still yearn for "the great death" for which...
...organ fantasia in the style of Cabezon. But most noteworthy is the substantial amount of Indian music and sound effects, performed both on and off stage. This has been meticulously written out, with a vast instrumentarium including slide-recorders and some twenty varieties of exotic percussion. Its impact is indescribable...
Frame of Reference. Small circulation (57,000) inevitably limits the impact of such observations, no matter how honed. But the Seventh Avenue community served by Gottfried and Women's Wear makes up an important swatch of every theater audience; garment manufacturers are traditional theatergoers as well as busy entertainers of out-of-town buyers. And in the smart set that reads the paper for more than its fashion reports (among them: Pat Lawford, Rosalind Russell and Mrs. William Paley), the critic's reputation has spread cross-country...
Though colonels and captains crowd the King's payroll, his prized possession is R.A.F. Flight Lieut. Marlowe, played with smashing impact by James Fox (the corrupted young aristocrat of The Servant). Marlowe becomes an apostle of King's anything-for-a-buck philosophy because it works miracles for him, tested as it is under circumstances in which his family's long heritage...
...American Place Theatre is in a church building of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. But the stained glass windows and the wooden arches are not enough to account for the distinctly religious impact Hogan's Goat possesses. Alfred's play is finely, perhaps too finely worked. But its elegant construction is also shot through with a more basic beauty of language and thought. It is a work of faith and love...