Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done. For a proper understanding of the Oresteia not one strophe of those choric odes can be left out. From the plot action alone, the audience might suppose itself to be watching a rather unpleasant melodrama. The poet is intent that we know what profound issues are at stake. These odes are further remarkable in that they presuppose an Athenian audience able to grasp their content at a first hearing. If, not what would have been the point of composing them...
...President Kennedy, then hands 1968 to Brother Bobby (over Nelson Rockefeller). With that out of the way, Vidal, whose stepfather, Hugh D. Auchincloss, is also Jackie Kennedy's stepfather, lets Bobby have it. "There are flaws in Bobby's person hard to disguise," he writes, with no intent to disguise them. "For one thing, it will take a public relations genius to make him appear lovable. His obvious characteristics are energy, vindictiveness, and a simple-mindedness about human motives which may yet bring him down. To Bobby the world is black or white. Them...
...night seemed at the start totally miscellaneous. The Beethoven Violin Sonata, Op.96, opened it, the Schoenberg String Trio, Op. 45 followed, and the second half plunged into the electronic music of Cage, Mache and Schaeffer. But all the pieces closely complemented each other, for the modern works were all intent upon evoking a sense of enigmatic direction, of thoughtful uncertainty, and the Beethoven at least approached them by using an unusual formal scheme. Listening to all this raised the important question of what should determine taste within so free a style...
...using such a method to state a son's widening awe of a rare father, the author obliged himself not only to retell the beautiful Chiron myth, but to give at least some attention to Prometheus-even though his intent is not to translate myths into modern terms, but to illuminate a modern hero's death with myths. Updike slights Prometheus, and his book surfers. The reader learns little more than that Peter is bright, has psoriasis (the vulture's peck, presumably), and that as an adult he is a second-rate abstract painter with a Negro...
...good. Roth accepted the award with a witty speech about the nonsensical questions writers are asked (Should the writer smoke marijuana or shouldn't he? Is Yaddo* bad for you? Should he have a telephone?). The tone of the speech was not that of a young tiger intent on astonishing his elders but of an accepted member of the literary world whose high position is beyond the need of proof...