Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROBERT GOULET ON BROADWAY (Columbia). Goulet attacks each show tune as though it came from Il Trovatore. He can make lyrics like "Say I'm your Valentine" sound like the declaration of dark passion and Hello, Dolly! become a grand official greeting. Much of the music benefits from being made to sound important...
Michael Murray, the director, has chosen to emphasize the dramatic aspects of the play often at the expense of the Brechtian irony. The dialogue, for example, is often spoken with passion rather than with detachment. His stage, however, is far too small for the pageantry scenes, and Murray has made no attempt to enlarge it with devices. As a result, Brecht's intended contrast between the large and the intimate scenes often gets muddled...
...sees much that is good and necessary in what has happened. Yet he fears its future implications, when what he calls the "corruption of consensus" may ultimately cause the Government to become "flabby and complacent and lose the cutting edge of energy, initiative and innovation." He predicts that "the passion will have disappeared, and increasingly the compulsion of purpose will be dissipated...
Died. Kathleen Norris, 85, grandmother of the American sentimental novel (Passion Flower, Heartbroken Melody), widow of Author Charles G. Norris (Salt) and sister-in-law of the late social novelist Frank Norris (McTeague), a feminist and pacifist who in nearly half a century turned out 81 relentlessly wholesome books (10,000,000 copies sold), plus reportage and innumerable short stories for women's magazines; following a stroke; in San Francisco. "I write," she once said, "for people with simple needs, like myself," and her books played endless variations on a single theme: "Get a girl in all kinds...
...like a composite English gentleman-to whom he addresses a prose poem of admiration. He deplores oral contraceptives as "stealthy pills which encroach on human dignity and destroy the few good and beautiful things that have not yet vanished in the rummage sale of ancient cultures." He classifies the "passion for ugliness and disfigurement" in modern art as a "danger far greater than depopulation by war." Liberals would call him a reactionary. Yet his views might more accurately be called the politics of nostalgia...