Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long narrative poem in blank verse which first appeared in the New Yorker last year, and which I remember was about someone telling an insomniac how to get to sleep. What I had not remembered was that the poem explained much more, was a defining of perception and a sad discussion of his art. "What you must manage is to bring to life/ A landscape not worth looking at." "Nor must you dream of opening any door/ Until you've seen what lies beyond...
...rarely uses adjectives that are of other than the visually descriptive kind (such as "orange," "six-foot," and "sad"). Experience, as it is related, is a series of intellectual predicaments; decisions are made neither by the debate of deep-rooted philosophies nor by the agonizing of mind-searching emotions, but by the empirical evidence of the accumulated experiences...
Among the ladies, only Chalyce Brown can match his performance. As Mad Margaret, an envious witch and later wife to Sir Despard, she charges happily from wild laughter, to perfectly-controlled song to dreamy, moon-struck soliloquy. Sad to report, her part is smaller than her gifts...
Pantagleize, subtitled "A Farce to Make You Sad," gets its name from the central character, a half-philosopher, half-clown unwittingly involved with a cell of revolutionaries who take him for their leader. Pantagleize falls in love with a young girl who is one of the leaders of the revolution, but she is killed by the police. Eventually the revolutionaries are all caught and executed. Pantagleize too is shot: he dies like a marionette, uncomplaining, manipulated to the very end by forces he never could understand...
Closely Watched Trains--Funny and sad like most Czech films. Worth seeing. At the HARVARD SQUARE...