Word: oded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard is like a womb, sheltering you for four years. As Samuel Pitts Duffield '92 put it in a Class Ode...
...take such offense? Except in The Tempest, Shakespeare never observed all three of the classical unities of time, place and action rigidly prescribed by 10th century Continental theorists (and not by Aristotle, as usually claimed). Many people need to be reminded that, even in the ancient Greek playwrights, one ode may indicate a long lapse of time. Pericles contains a similar 16 year leap of time; and Henry VI, Part One covers more than three decades...
...Gertrude Stein, Isadora Duncan, Virginia Woolf). For a touch of Shakespeare, Alan Hovhaness and John Harbison are at work on operas based on Pericles and The Winter's Tale, though Harbison picked his play four years ago. Out in Seattle, the Eastern-inspired Hovhaness is also writing An Ode to the Cascade Mountains...
...South Dakota," a disquieting narrative about a teenage boy who abandons his family and his pregnant girl friend in search of nothing better, has more serious value then almost anything Friedman has done. Flashes of his bizarre humor also appear occasionally, as in "Before All Hell Breaks Loose," an ode to the Apocalypse...
Kael criticizes A Woman Under the Influence for being "entirely tendentious: it's all planned, yet is isn't thought out." Her initial premise is wrong; Cassavetes is no Laingian disciple. Laing's The Politics of Experience is an ode to schizophrenia. He claims that they aren't really mad; but that society is. The thrust of the movie is not, however, to explore the reaches of madness but to scrutinize the problems of a love relationship. To call Cassavetes a Laingian is to assume that he analyzes what he sees the same way an intellectual does. But the only...