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...Sweeney, Cariou performs with epic ashen gravity like a scion of the House of Usher summoned forth by Poe. Quite wonderful and totally different is Lansbury's Mrs. Lovett, a blowsy pragmatist as wickedly succulent as one of her pies. Within a broodingly ominous iron clad set, Harold Prince directs his accomplished forces with the flash, flourish and panache of a Broadway Patton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Razor's Edge | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

DIED. Allen Tate, 79, influential Southern poet, critic and teacher; in Nashville. A Kentuckian who as a boy longed to be another Edgar Allan Poe, Tate was a brilliant, arrogant senior at Vanderbilt University when he was invited to join a group of older poets known as the Fugitives, which included his teacher John Crowe Ransom. Believing that industrialism would ruin the South, Tate was for a time an agrarian and always venerated what he saw as the stability and simplicity of the Old South. He taught at a number of colleges, mainly the University of Minnesota, and helped found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 19, 1979 | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...great themes of American literature is the subversion of normalcy, by presenting the gothic element in American life (Poe), the hungering force of a dusky past (Hawthorne), or the explosive curse of vice (Faulkner). Similarly, when we look closely at Jones's life, neither it nor the midwest seems so blithely "normal." For Jones was half-Indian, and in the midwest in the '50s you were not allowed to forget that very long--you were an outsider. At age 18, Jones became a Maoist and made the intellectual synthesis on which he would build his church: that religion is indeed...

Author: By Christopher Agee, | Title: The Wisdom That Is Woe... ...the Woe That Is Madness | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

...ball is fired into the Princeton end and Harvard changes on the fly..." You could almost imagine such a play-by-play account of the soccer team's efforts Saturday at Princeton's Poe field as Crimson coach George Ford went to a platoon system to ignite his beleaguered forward line...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Booters Shake Up Line, Get Baked, 2-0 | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...Patron saint: Edgar Allan Poe. Motto: "Crime does not pay-enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries That Bloom in Spring | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

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