Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is missing from this novel is not the author's expert hand, but his heart. All Greene's best novels testify to his own obsession with the meaning or the meaninglessness of life, to his own quest for bearings along the ambiguous border between good and evil. The Comedians somehow reads as if Greene had temporarily given up the search and were merely conducting a guided tour past landmarks already found...
Malcolm. The quest for a father, the spectral son, the possessive bitch-mother, the world as supreme castrater -these are themes, roles and patterns that have obsessed Edward Albee from the days of The Sandbox and The American Dream to Virginia Woolf and Tiny Alice. In this adaptation of James Purdy's novel Malcolm, he finds all his own vintage wines in another man's cellar. The trouble is that these wine bottles are now empty, and the wind whistles over them all evening with a low, monotonous, deadly moan...
American has plenty of company in its quest to become the third U.S. airline (after Northwest and Pan Am) to span the Pacific. Eastern, Western and Continental have made similar applications to the CAB. United, which already flies to Hawaii, intends to ask for an extension to Tokyo. Delta and TWA will probably also put in bids...
Much more than the "verbatim" document it was first announced as, In Cold Blood is a new kind of saga, and a unique landmark in American historiography. Its impact and brilliance, the result of a six-year quest after every person and detail involved in the murder, mark the demise of Capote, the literary mannerist. He has abandoned the mellifluous language honed for his previous work, and discovered a new diction--based on listening to a staggering amount of mental transcription taken from the entire cast of a protracted drama--to handle the lives, minds, and language of those directly...
...actors themselves were a pretty dreary lot with the exception of that brilliant clown Paul Benedict and the more-Aryan-than-Thou Larry Bryggman. Jo Lane was tedious in the virtuoso role of "The Jewish Wife" and Ted Kazanoff inadequate as the perplexed Judge in "Quest for Justice." Granted it was opening night, I wonder if that is any excuse in a professional company for the inordinate number of missed cues, dropped lines, and fumbled props. The one bright note was the new translation by the Harvard Graduate School's own Kenneth Tigar and Clayton Koelb, which sounded superior...