Word: phrased
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Auden, who is now 63, has always been a cultural gamesman. Word schemes, puzzles and categories delight him. There are entries for acronyms, angelology, mnemonics, numbers, foreign phrase books. Always a zealous listmaker, he has included long entries of little-known names for woodpeckers and cuckoos and even lesser-known names for the human genitals (17 for the male and a lavish 28 for the female), as well as a wealth of arcane anecdote. Flipping to "Anagrams," for instance, the reader finds the story of a 17th century British eccentric named Eleanor Audley who, having plucked REVEALE O DANIEL...
...been Irish in Boston in the 1930s, or Italian in Buffalo in the 1960s, Kenneth Gibson's victory last week would have been both unremarked and unremarkable. But Gibson is, in Novelist Ralph Ellison's phrase, an invisible man-possessing a black skin that blinds many whites to the humanity within...
...tempted to speak, in Disraeli's phrase, of two nations-"two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets." Perhaps that picture, originally drawn of 19th century England, is too extreme, too simple, too alarmist. But if we are not yet two nations, surely we are in the grip of two realities...
...Robert Brustein and the Yale Repertory Theater have produced a version of Moliere's Don Juan that is significant to a contemporary audience. As George Bernard Shaw pointed out, the prototypical Don Juan was proposed in legend as the enemy of God, and Translator Kenneth Cavender uses this phrase as the play's subtitle, instead of Moliere's "The Feast of the Statue." Brustein goes further, presenting the Don as not merely a sex-obsessed boudoir-supremacist womanizing his way to damnation, but as a supranatural embodiment of alienated man, offered up as an atoning sacrifice. This...
...with Anna (Liv Ullman), whose husband and son have recently perished in a grisly auto accident. She insists that her marriage was ideal; actually it was calamitous. She claims to feel love emanating from Andreas; in fact he has no conception of the term. In Rollo May's phrase, "Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is." Love's opposite is all that Andreas can summon...