Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brno still blushes and changes the subject when anyone mentions it. A choir director, conductor and organ teacher, Janacek at age 27 married one of his students, 16-year-old Zdenka Schulz, and lived unhappily ever after. Despite two children, Janacek humiliated his wife with his spectacular philandering. In less amorous moments, he found time to compose three minor operas and The Excursions of Mr. Brouček, a light, satirical tale about a flight to the moon and the Hussite wars of the 15th century. He also wrote one powerful but somber verismo work: Jenufa, the story...
Although he is often harsh on him self, Spender seems to have been less consistently wrong than fairminded. He was generous in praise of Yeats, Eliot and Pound, whose work had political leanings alien to his own: "The reactionaries never thought that they should put their art at the service of the ideology of the authoritarian fascistic leaders, in the way that many leftists thought that they should put theirs at the service of Marxism and of the political bureaux which laid down the Communist Party lines...
That does not mean that they go un-buffeted, especially when caught in a political whirlwind like the Bakke case, brought by Allan Bakke, applicant to a California medical school who successfully argued he had been excluded in favor of less qualified blacks. In an early draft of a brief stating the Government's position on that "reverse discrimination" case, McCree came down in favor of affirmative action, but explicitly against quotas. After loud protests from black leaders and some Cabinet officers, including HEW Secretary Joseph Califano, McCree and Assistant U.S. Attorney General Drew Days, who is also black...
...this drama. For Brook it is a daring choice, his first production with the Royal Shakespeare Company since 1970, when he made A Midsummer Night's Dream into a clever circus fantasy all his own. Antony and Cleopatra is not so easily transformed. At times the director seems less bent on interpreting the play than providing solutions to its technical problems. If there are more than 40 scenes, then he lets them flow into each other swiftly, with one group of actors finishing a sequence while another is starting a new one elsewhere on the stage. Brook mines...
...Brook offers is a kaleidoscope of insight and detail; he misses nothing in the play. But there is little space left over for passion or a world well lost for love. Antony (Alan Howard) and Cleopatra (Glenda Jackson) seem too much like old buddies, rather than old and reck less lovers. Jackson brings overflowing energy to the part. Physically she is mesmerizing. Playing the imperious Queen, she uses broad, almost sculptured arm gestures. A moment later she is running like a girl or jumping dervish-like in tight circles. But there are no pauses or silences here, and finally...