Word: nesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unhappily, Williams' story dies with his telling it, for though he weaves a spell he cannot validate a vision. It matters less that noisomely misanthropic symbols keep recurring in his work than that they nowhere seem purgative. With Swiftian ferocity he reveals a Swiftian tormented-ness; and as with Swift, however much he retches, he cannot disgorge.* More culpably, Williams' gift for theatricalism makes the how of Suddenly Last Summer devour the why, turns the horrifying means into an end in itself...
Katzenbach devoted the opening moments of his talk to an off-the-cuff discussion of America's present position in the missile program race. "We're behind because of our own stupidity, our own narrow-mindedness, our own close-fisted-ness," he charged...
...around the vicarage piano. Designed for use by a small orchestra, or combo, the Mass sometimes sounds romantic echoes of Sigmund Romberg (the Credo), sometimes switches to a "beguine tempo" (Kyrie, Agnus Dei), sometimes soars in the harmonies of the Negro spiritual ("0 praise God in his ho-li-ness") or thumps with a syncopated bass ("We praise Thee, we bless Thee we praise Thee, we bless Thee"). At several points in the score, instruments are invited to swing into their own improvisations, e.g., the trumpet after the passage, "Praise Him in the sound of the Trumpet...
Being 43 and a male, I never have been pregnant [as Judy Holliday is in Full of Life-Feb. 18]. However, the peanut butter and onion sandwich is one of my favorites. The peanut butter cuts the strength of the onion, and the onion cuts the dry ness of the peanut butter...
...good points of Existentialism, he stated, are that it demands "facing up to the worst" in a hostile universe and that it gives a sense of dread of nothing-ness. He calls this second point "a fundamental fact in human life" very much like the Old Testament sense of awe in the face...