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...Abbey Cinema-Stanley Kubrick's masterwork, 2001: A Space Odyssey, "Suggested for stoned audiences." 600 Commonwealth...
...style derives from both decorative Oriental and primitive art and illusionist painting. He may lift details from lace sleeves he has seen in a Flemish masterwork at the Metropolitan Museum and expand them into blown-up patterns, offset these with gingham checks from his wife's summer dress, and counterpoint both with huge pointillist dots. The results look like an explosion in a fabrics factory or a rabbit-hole view of a Wonderland garden...
...Thinker's Grappling. Despite his acknowledged eminence, Barth's masterwork, Church Dogmatics, is one of the least-read great books of the century, and Barthian neo-orthodoxy now seems almost as old hat as the orthodoxy it displaced. Yet Barth wanted no disciples-except, he said, for his own sons Markus, a professor at Pittsburgh Theology Seminary, and Christoph, a Biblical scholar at the University of Mainz, Germany-and he often told students: "Don't repeat what I have said. Learn to think for yourselves." He tried firmly to shun theological fashion, and his constant goal...
...week concerning the imminent disintegration of the HRO's impending Beethoven Ninth concert. The Choirs, supposedly stripped of their talents by the reorganization of the Glee Club, were said to be less than protean musicreaders, and in general hopelessly inadequate to the almost insuperable vocal difficulties of Beethoven's masterwork. And so, as I entered the hall I remembered Robert Scott's famous lament at the end of his diary, written as the merciless Antarctic finally buried him: "We took risks; we knew we took them...
...disavowals. One is his novel The First Circle, rushed into print by Harper & Row in a translation that is often unreadable and sometimes ludicrously inaccurate. It will also appear as a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in November. In the original, The First Circle is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a scathing, ironic portrayal of life in Russia in 1948 and its concentric circles of hell expanding out from Stalin, who has never been made so frighteningly real. Next month, Collins of London is bringing out a far better translation of The First Circle .? The second novel is Cancer Ward...