Word: manne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need to push the point. The relevant equipment is certainly not the stuff they use backstage at the Loeb, although those toys would tempt anyone to tyranny, and I sometimes think, have put the electricians in charge over there. But I only mention this as a warning: Director Emily Mann seems to have kept the play mostly honest, except for a few damned spots like the prophetic mike in the witches's cauldron or wherever the hell the unintelligible thing is hidden. Aside from these few squawky, drumming irritations, the show is true and solid, as forceful and well gestured...
...lives. I ask myself: Is it for this, for cruelties like these, for disproportions on this scale, that all of his labors, dreams and hours are contrived, exacted and expended? Is it for this that he has given fifty years to the analysis and explication of the work of Mann and Kafka, Auden, Eliot, John Donne...
...haul monde of his time. Though he also wrote political diaries, art books and fiction (his The Castle of Otranto is the prototype of the gothic novel), Walpole wielded his pen effectively and entertainingly in writing letters to such friends as Poet Thomas Gray and Diplomat Sir Horace Mann. Sensing his correspondence's value to posterity, the bachelor author once said: "Nothing gives so just an idea of an age as genuine letters. History waits for its last seal from them...
...Diplomat Sir Horace Mann...
...opinion of Pablo Casals? I have no opinion, only profound respect and joyful admiration for a man whose art, for all its impetuousness, is allied to a rigid refusal to compromise with wrong, with anything that is morally squalid or offensive to justice. --Thomas Mann...