Word: mock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hefty book review. All of the essays are about Jews and Judaism (although one was written by a Catholic, Michael Novak, and concerns itself with the problems he feels arise when a Catholic "encounters" a Jew), the short story has been cast in a specifically Jewish idiom (the involved mock-reminiscence practiced by Issac Bashevis Singer), and at least one of the poems has an announced Jewish theme (though, I confess, I think that without its title its professed Jewishness would undoubtedly have escaped me). But the play and book review--of E. H. Carr's What Is History...
...above a solo violin. At the end of Part I, the inital treatment of the theme returns in the parts of Elizabeth and the large choir. The theme dogs the listener for the remaining two parts, along with other simpler, but equally tiresome, motives. For example, Martin delights in mock marches: everywhere there are alternating augmented fifths and repeated sequences, pizzicato, in the basses. Tone pyramids pile up at the end of Part I, at the entrance of the angels in Bethlehem, Part II, in the fields in Part II, and elsewhere...
Accepting his humptyninth award-the MacDowell Colony Medal from the Academy of American Poets-white-maned Poet Robert Frost, 88, fixed his affectionate audience with a mock-sincere twinkle in his eye and quite clearly said: "I wish my mother could...
...people of Babylon heeded not the words of the prophet, and brought harps and timbrel into their hall and played loud music. Then again came Argaman the prophet and said "Woe unto you people of Babylon for you mock the Lord with loud music. Surely your house shall be made a desolation...
...locked in some private bomb shelter of her sodden fearful mind, and will not hear. At this point, the play achieves a suffocating vision of evil that would take a second Flood to cleanse. Even sin is sterile. Martha returns with a crestfallen Nick and announces mock-grandiosely: "I am the earth-mother, and you're all flops...