Word: modernizations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which was a good idea, since it has one of those comic opera plots which are usually best left to Mozart or Rossini or the Comedie Francaise or oblivion. Mr. Hancock has moved it--by the scruff of the neck--to southern California, and changed the characters to modern types. None of these types is original. Most of them, oddly enough, are very funny. The hero is portrayed as the sort of healthy youth who hung around with Superboy in the halcyon days of Superman D.C. publications; his friend becomes a bop musician temporarily without an instrument; the footman becomes...
...Must Die (French). The story of a modern Calvary; one of the most powerful religious movies in years...
...20th century morality play by Poet Archibald MacLeish, expressing modern man's torment in terms of the Book of Job. Despite some flatness in both poetry and drama, and a rather hollow ending, it makes for an arresting evening in the theater...
...Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Charles Neider. Skillfully worked excerpts from the 500,000 words of notes left by the cynical, naive, laughing man who lived on through fictional boys to become the father of much that is best in modern American literature...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A neo-Homeric epic...