Word: kaddish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Part of the group of literary and cultural iconoclasts known as the Beatniks, Ginsberg first gained popularity in 1956 after publishing his poem, "Howl," Ginsberg's other well known pieces include "Kaddish" and "A Supermarket in California...
...Free), the Broadway musical (West Side Story) and the symphony (The Age of Anxiety). But in the past 20 years, it seems, the vast range of his talent has hindered rather than helped him, especially as a writer of serious music. In 1963 there was the embarrassment of the "Kaddish" Symphony, with its outburst of adolescent admonishment of God; 1971 saw a Christianized version of the same material in Mass. The premiere last week of his new opera, A Quiet Place, while an improvement, did little to stem his creative decline...
...every day save the Sabbath, Cohn lectures the apes on the obligations of freedom, the American Constitution, the Big Bang, the nature of evil and other elevated subjects. On Passover he conducts a Seder for the sapient monkeys, except for the intractable gorilla, who will attend only to the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead...
...baby, causes the beasts to go amuck. In a lunatic re-enactment of both Abraham's intended sacrifice of Isaac and of the Crucifixion, Cohn is killed by the apes. In a final tableau, the gorilla dons a yarmulke and "in his throaty, gruff voice" recites the Kaddish...
...German conquest of Europe and of the eventual liberation, the sound track hammering home the pounding of Luftwaffe bombs. Whipped by a cold wind, the survivors broke into songs like I Believe, sung by their relatives on the way to the gas chambers. The group then recited the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead...