Word: odes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these go wrong: Henry often becomes a cipher; the SPFC scene is both cruel and whimsical in a mix that doesn't mesh; and I even may be mistaken about the purpose of the songs the girls were singing: I am told that one of them, Tom Eyen's "Ode to a Screw," passes for chic these days...
...theme could have been one more excuse to laugh or cry at the kind of song and dance that dazzled a less sophisticated generation. But in its staging, and above all in its music and lyrics, Follies is astonishingly futuristic?more modern, really, than that calculated rock-beat ode to the counterculture, Hair...
...cultural remembrance of things past. Familiarity breeds content. Nonetheless, it is the singer who glorifies the song. Perhaps Siobhan McKenna's finest moments come in the two greatest Joyce monologues, "Anna Livia Plurabelle," from Finnegans Wake, and Molly Bloom's closing reverie from Ulysses. One is an ode to a river, the other to a woman. In Miss McKenna's delivery, the two are linked in a cascade of sounds and moods-drowsy, restless, tactile, sensuous-that, with a mounting lyrical intensity, evoke the eternal waters of life...
...ODE TO THE SCITUATE SEA MONSTER
...preserved in Max Hayward's excellent translation, she captures an almost physical sense of the way people shifted their views and the very foundations of their personalities in order to survive. For Mandelstam, change was impossible. He once tried to keep off the Bolshevik wolves by writing an ode to Stalin. Try as he might, it was an impossible task. Yet the conflict and the tension launched him on a new cycle of real poems...