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Gettysburg was a subject worthy to join the nuggets that Omnibus has been throwing into TV's current season of dross. In recent weeks it has served up a stunning Oedipus (TIME, Jan. 21), an illuminating and instructive essay on the dance by Agnes de Mille. and Leonard Bernstein's brilliant primer on modern music. To do this, Omnibus must virtually ignore the rest of TV's unabashed efforts to please at any price. Such is Omnibus' charter. So far it has spent some $8,900,000 of Ford Foundation funds in its five seasons (about...
Kudos & Choler Oedipus the King has stood well the test of 2,400 years, of almost every spoken tongue, of a multitude of translators, interpreters and tamperers. When it appeared on TV last week, the test was strictly of TV. Was the narrow, circumscribed cathode world of 17 or 21 inches up to the big challenge of one of the most compelling and most perfect of plays? The answer, delivered lovingly by Omnibus, over ABC, was yes. In an uninterrupted hour and five minutes of clean-plucked verse and smoothly paced action, Producer Robert Saudek and Director Alan Schneider demonstrated...
Personally, I feel the solution to the "enigma" of this play, or of modern music or painting, lies mainly in one thing: familiarity. No work that gives everything it has to offer on first acquaintance can be a candidate for immortality. People are still arguing about the meaning of Oedipus Rex and Hamlet--and these both can be legitimately regarded in all sorts of ways, from a first-rate detective story on up. The same is true of Godot; familiarity yields ever-increasing insights. One sees that the four main roles represent humanity ("All mankind is us"). Beckett presents them...
Last fall, the Drama Group presented Oedipus Rex and The Critic; Hal Scott played the lead and D.J. Sullivan directed...
...recognition drawn from the reader. This collection of poems, written over the past 25 years, falls far short of greatness, yet has extraordinary appeal. Fitzgerald blends his commitment to the present with a deep love of the pagan past (with Dudley Fitts, he has ably translated Sophocles' Oedipus Rex), and his work flickers in and out of the centuries. A singing Georgic to husbandry...