Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Morris Carnovsky gets full mileage out of the aging army doctor Chebutykin, who lives Irina as he had loved her mother. Carnovsky provides a masterly depiction of a gradually deteriorating personality. He has never read a book, and occupies himself with little that is more lofty than his ever-present daily newspaper (in real Russian, too). He must have been a pretty inferior physician at the outset, and in the course of the play he sinks to the belief that absolutely nothing matters anymore. So far gone is Carnovsky's doctor that, after washing and drying his hand...
...think it is because she ever resorts to the hackneyed or the cliched. Rather, we, like Martha, have become supremely conscious of events around us. It is the price one pays for attending all those ever-so-serious "rap sessions." And so Mrs. Lessing can be enthusiastically read for the confirmation she often gives to one's own opinions as well as for the general clarity with which she treats those few areas in which our opinions might not yet be formed...
...SCOPE and thoroughness, The Four-Gated City is very much a nineteenth century novel. However, its concerns are much more contemporary. To simplify matters immeasurably--and, for those who have read the book, perhaps intolerably--the narrative alternates between the two poles of politics and insanity--the public and private responses of modern man. As literary marriages go, it seems the successful offspring of an alliance between George Orwell and Virginia Woolf...
...campus affairs, a move that got him off to a good start with the student body. He then requested a written self-appraisal from each department, getting response from 285 faculty and staff members. This netted him a 4,400-page report 16.3 inches high, all of which he read and used to good effect...
...previous chronicles of President-making, Theodore H. White's talents were more than equal to the task: the creation of historical documents that read like suspense novels. This time the odds were against him. White's best reportage delineates character; portraiture is his forte. In 1968, events overshadowed individuals. It was a year of frustration and disruption, of groping and dismay. Many were killed, the timid endured, the vague were exalted, the hesitant lost. Finally the managers stepped in, good and gray but hardly the stuff to invigorate the imagination...