Word: orpheus
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...Black Orpheus--Channel...
DUINO ELEGIES AND THE SONNETS TO ORPHEUS...
...thought-to see the world as the angels might. He finished two elegies and fragments of several others before inspiration deserted him. Ten years and a world war later, it suddenly reappeared. In an astonishing single month, Rilke completed the ten Duino Elegies and wrote the 55 Sonnets to Orpheus...
Virtually no one alive saw his first play. Battle of Angels, since it closed during its Boston tryout in 1940, but when it reappeared as Orpheus Descending in 1957, it was not really worth seeing. The Milk Train Doesn 't Stop Here Any More was not a completely negligible drama on its first New York showing in 1963, but its doctored version one year later was comatose. Now Williams has given Summer and Smoke a kind of coronary bypass, but the patient looks pale...
Beauty and the Beast, Friday and Saturday at 5:55, 9:25; Black Orpheus...