Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BACH: THE ST. MATTHEW PASSION (London). Karl Miinchinger and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra give the masterpiece an interpretation that is lovingly faithful to Bach's design. It has an appropriately reverent quality rather than the overwhelming emotional thrust of massed voices that most often dominate baroque oratorios. Among the soloists, all competent, Peter Pears as the narrator and August Messthaler as Judas stand...
Postwar Tokyo has had a passion for fads. For many years, it was pachinko, or playing the pinball machines. Then came the chubby plastic dakkochan dolls (TIME, Aug. 29, 1960) that clung to girls' arms and shoulders. The latest craze is angling parlors, where patrons can drop a line into a pool and, be mused by background music, fish for carp. The fad caught on last year when the angling parlors mushroomed from a few score to a present-day 539 in the heart of the city. One parlor was installed in a former bar with the pool behind...
...book together. It never reached publication while the poet lived, but since his death Prieto has become known throughout Spain as the "Line Poet," primarily for his exquisite evocations of Lorca's poetic moods. Butterflies & Starlings. The poet's own drawings capture more the passion of a moment; Prieto's, the controlled fire that is Lorca's hallmark. The imagery that surprises in print, astonishes in pictures. Lorca's Ode to Walt Whitman, for example, goes: "Not for one moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies...
Undaunted by the list of her great predecessors, Author Shelley Mydans, wife of Photographer Carl Mydans, again tells the story in this new book, subtitled "a novel of the life, passion and miracles of Becket." It is still a rousing tale, filled with pomp and circumstance, tumultuous with the hacking blades of knights in battle, and silken with conspiracies that range from London to Rome...
This century is likely to expire before qualified men find Nikos Kazantzakis' true place in the pantheon of literature. His claims on greatness must await the patient perspective of time. He wrote eight novels, of which three-Zorba the Greek, The Greek Passion and Freedom or Death-are well known...