Word: poetically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This one-acter, written by Leonard Melfi, difiers radically in feel from the other two plays. It is one further step removed from what we call naturalism and hardly seems to be taking place on earth. It is essentially not a comedy, and the language operates on a fantastical poetic level that is closer to the cosmos than the nitty-gritty of American life...
...Cher Antoine is a masterpiece," cheered France Soir. "A complete masterpiece, profound, sparkling, subtle, naive, poetic, comic, full of resonance." Wrote Le Figaro: "Anyone who doesn't like this piece knows nothing about human beings, has no love for the theater, can't recognize an author of talent and lacks a sense of humor...
...tight thinness of a mother's face, prematurely aging, lacks the poetic power it initially possessed. Close-ups of every sort of face flourish in such quantity that interesting subject matter alone is not enough...
...Ferrat, it lives on in Michael's mind, recounted and reflected upon there in a sometimes ironic, sometimes bitter, often tender and usually elegiac tone. By using the erudite Michael as his narrator, J. R. Salamanca succeeds in finding an appropriate vehicle for his insights and his fluid poetic prose. Few writers have shown so perceptively that love and marriage are not as simply connected as the horse and carriage...
...YEAR OF THE PEOPLE by Eugene J. McCarthy. 323 pages. Doub/eday. $6.95. Though ostensibly about what happened, McCarthy's book is really about the man, his charm, his wit, his occasional smugness, above all his poetic third eye on himself and his surroundings. An unwitting reminder of the 1968 paradox that those seeking cleaner, simpler political truths chose as hero the most complex politician in the nation...