Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could produce a Literature of Niceness to supplement the not-so-nice real thing. In a society that is overloaded with writers, there must be imagination enough to contrive sunnier alternative life-styles for many of the fictional characters who otherwise will endure in the pain, anguish and futile passion imagined by their authors. Why, for one instance, shouldn't King Lear be seen in some truly golden retirement years, preferably in an adults-only community? And why not a tale in which Othello and Desdemona kiss and make up? Imagine Lady Macbeth joining the Gray Ladies. Or Molly...
...cause of all that passion-and of lesser outbursts in other state legislatures -is a subject guaranteed to put most ordinary citizens to sleep: reapportionment. In state capitols across the country, legislators are wrangling to draw new boundaries for U.S. congressional districts to conform with the 1980 census. (After that, they will reapportion their own state legislatures.) The decennial battle, always a partisan struggle, is especially heated this year: a total of 17 seats must be transferred from ten states in the Northeast and Midwest to eleven states in the West and the South. Those losing seats are New York...
Their nine-week debut season led off with a rumbustious, top-of-the-lungs revival of The Front Page, that cynical fairy tale of newsmen with contempt for the truth who nonetheless embrace newspapering with a passion that crushes all other loves. Next week the theater will present Ted Tally's 1977 Terra Nova, a poetic, emotional drama about Robert Falcon Scott's second-place finish in the race to reach the South Pole-and his team's anguished way back, with the last of them dying only a few miles from base camp. While those productions...
...other hand, that may be what attracts some to it. As Christopher Lasch wrote in his 1978 book The Culture of Narcissism: "To live for the moment is the prevailing passion-to live for yourself, not for your predecessors or posterity. We are fast losing the sense of historical continuity, the sense of belonging to a succession of generations originating in the past and stretching into the future. It is the waning of the sense of historical time-in particular the erosion of any strong concern for posterity-that distinguishes the spiritual crisis of the '70s." This seems most...
...myth of Pygmalion and Galatea (the sculptor falling in love with the figure he had carved) had vast resonance for Rodin; in his marble Pygmalion and Galatea, 1910, the girl emerging from the stone seems literally shaped by the carved sculptor's own passion, as though the contrasts between consciousness and dream, body and effigy, art and life, subject and object could all be packed into one erotic metaphor. No wonder that when he made his image of The Sculptor and His Muse (circa 1890), the Muse's hand was laid encouragingly on the sculptor's genitals...