Word: oedipus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knox is known for his book Oedipus of , a critical interpretation of Rex, for his translation of the published in 1959, and for his short studies on classical authors. He is also known across the country for his film lectures on the Oedipus trilogy, made for a secondary school television course...
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (CBS, 4-5:30 p.m.). Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex with a talk by Lenny on musical works based on literary classics...
...Olivier's understudy there, he went into Coriolanus when Sir Laurence went out with a slipped knee cartilage, carried off the part with a brilliant blend of boisterousness and truculence. Since then, he has been a wild Teddy Boy in The Lily White Boys, a suitably complex Oedipus in a BBC production of Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine, and a robust and lyric Romeo in a Caedmon recording of Romeo and Juliet (with Claire Bloom), scheduled for U.S. release soon. But throughout Britain he is best known as Arthur Seaton, hero of the film version of Novelist...
...state's ends? So Schirmbeck's characters inquire, talking essays to each other the way Aldous Huxley's people used to, and enthusiastically fogging the main issues with wildly sprayed brilliance on such matters as the esthetics of the ballet and the narrator's Oedipus entanglements...
...reviewer from the New York Herald Tribune babbled gleefully that the group had "sung things calculated to cause a fellow to run his eyes, hold down his head sidewise and kick to get something out of his ears." They sang with Fritz Kreisler, Pablo Casals and performed Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex at the Metropolitan Opera...