Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MASTER BUILDER (Caedmon). No single drama of Ibsen's is more Freudian, and hence accessible to the modern mind. The play is a situation tragedy, and the symbols bleed. Solness, the artist-builder-husband, is vile in his self-absorption, and pitiable as he watches the tide of his creativity ebb. His wife is stifling and stifled. The young girl Hilde Wangel is Solness' mirage of the second chance, lost youth, lost inspiration, lost love recovered. But life is a role that man cannot rehearse or reverse. Sir Michael Redgrave as Solness thunders, hisses and froths like...
...DOUBLE IMAGE, by Helen MacInnes. Master Spywriter MacInnes again pits an innocent and firm-chinned hero against a murderous crew of international spies, and still again the result is a literate and topnotch suspense tale...
Like the legendary crane of Chinese mythology, Tri Quang throughout his career has largely managed to shroud himself from mortal view, appearing only now and then as an exclamation point to specific events. A master of means whose ends are obscure, he is, in maddening succession, devious, enigmatic, contradictory and blandly opaque. The only thing self-evident about him is his burning desire for power, his urgent ambition not only for himself but, presumably, for his people ?the Buddhists of South Viet...
First, though, let me emphasize the virtues of Pier Paolo Pasolini's work, for it is surely the best new movie to arrive in Boston this year; defects appear only when it is compared to the master-pieces of its genre...
Only a certain number of undergraduates have the dogged theatrical ambition to hang around the Loeb long enough to master its technical demands. The peculiar virtue of the Loeb is that it is equipped to stage large-scale, technically polished, professional-style productions. But only a hard core of theater lovers has been willing to spend week after week on production after production to qualify to use the Loeb's resources. If the Loeb staff wants to fill its huge stage, and large seating capacity, it must rely on devotees like these...