Word: lear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot line alone: Shakespeare stole his, and none of them would win at Cannes. We should consider also the important elements of language, characterization, poetic vision and nobility of sentiment, all of which we have appreciated in The Passion of Anna and Persona as well as in Lear...
...life-now married and the mother of two, she lives in a castle in the Italian Tyrol-Mary writes gracefully but modestly. Pound is the major figure in her book, and she willingly plays Cordelia to his Lear. Perhaps at times she adds too soft a shading to the fierce old face-who could begrudge him that? Who would not be glad to hear that he and Olga are still together in old age, "taking care of each other"? Who could not envy him the vision he rescued out of horror...
...sound Ph.D. dissertation could be written on the curious phenomenon of children's literature written by childless authors. From Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll to Dr. Seuss and Maurice Sendak, the phenomenon persists. The incidence is too high to be coincidental. Perhaps the writers substitute audience for family. Perhaps, like Beatrix Potter, they seem more comfortable in the domain of childhood, where fantasy is the norm and reality the intruder...
...crisis instead: she refuses to come out of the bathroom and go to the altar. As the afternoon degenerates, the bridled father's assaults on the bathroom door leave him and his cutaway looking like Salvation Army rejects. His face a frieze of capillaries, Matthau ultimately makes King Lear seem a whining serf...
...like Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn, revel in naming objects for their own sake. Jones' notes at the ends of his chapters are models of tart New England wit and his conversations with his friends have the unworldly, though undeniably human quality of Alice in Wonderland or Edward Lear's poem about the Jumblies-who, incidentally, did their drifting in a sieve...