Word: schweik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exception of the oboe and the first stand clarinents, the woodwinds were sometimes painfully shrill, and attacks were not always clean. Perhaps because of inferior equipment rather than lack of playing skill, the percussion section did not have the clean staccato required by Persichetti, Kurka in the Good Soldier Schweik, and Barber in his Commando March...
Wozzeck, Good Soldier Schweik and Private Hargrove. Bone-tired from flying endless missions (the required number is always raised every time he becomes eligible for Stateside shipment by the evil Colonel Cathcart, who wants to be a general), Yossarian decides one day to go crazy. Doc Daneeka, the flight surgeon, agrees that he has to ground anyone who's crazy; all one has to do is ask. "And then you can ground him?'' Yossarian inquires. "No. Then I can't ground him." "You mean there's a catch?" "Sure there's a catch...
...could not have been conceived by anyone else; yet they do most obviously have a model, the Kipling of "O, it's Tommy this an' Tommy that . . ." So too their spineless victim-- only he is patterned after, not Kipling, but Jaroslav Hasek's Adventures of the Good Soldier Schweik--a book Brecht thought one of the "three literary works of this century which . . . will become part of world literature...
...tone, the book resembles that comic masterpiece of World War I. The Good Soldier Schweik: in form, it is a kind of kosher Candide...