Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight in any decent Dublin pub. So before a word is said about the Irish character, let it be stated that very few Irishmen have it. The Irish character, if the truth be told, is a silly joke played on the English, and is only kept around for the sake of the tourists...
Entertainment is a must item for the Munsons. "When you're still young, and when you have two babies, this is one place where you don't want to cut down-if only for sanity's sake," says Mrs. Munson. She and her husband have substituted a local movie for their former weekly trip into Chicago, where they used to see plays. They hold one dinner party a week, even though Mrs. Munson complains that it costs an "absolute minimum...
...Both were lavishly mounted, eye-filling pieces. Onegin uses a score by Music Director Kurt-Heinz Stolze based on short pieces by Tchaikovsky. The work moves quickly and assuredly through Pushkin's tale of romance and betrayal, never assuming the luxury of a dance-for-dance's-sake diversion, bending every movement toward dramatic ends. Shrew, with music by Domenico Scarlatti arranged by Stolze and liberally peppered by his modern harmonies, adds a welcome touch of wit and tenderness to Shakespeare's buffoonery...
...Bosch him self, and sets them against the wall of a squalid Roman slum. Surrealistically oozing globules and pustules contrast with saints' pictures and comic-book illustrations. The result is an emphatically modern version of everyday hell, but it is more than merely nightmare for its own sake. The squalor usually serves to set off the loveliness of some ver dant Tuscan mountain landscape, distantly viewed. Of Exterior Wall with Landscape, he observes, "One might say that the window is the fantasy and the wall is reality. Every idyllic vision is out of the window and far away...
...realize the absurdity of dying for something--it is useless if your are dead. To be a rebel, to be ready to die, writes Camus, is to realize that rebellion is its own reason for existing. It is not rebellion for something, but simply rebellion for its own sake, rebellion because man cannot be man without rebelling. Few of us are there, and few of us are even getting there. Harvard taught us to be afraid to die anyway...