Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...full-length premiere last week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Part narrative epic, part rock opera, part home movie, United States is a sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued, aphoristic examination of 20th century life in 78 segments, lasting six hours and taking two evenings to perform. Wagnerian in its scope, Carrollian in its absurdist wit, Carsonian in its deadpan, stand-up-comic timing, Anderson's work is the biggest, most ambitious and most successful example to date of the avant-garde hybrid known as performance...
That element is Berlin's major strength. He does not only give us a narrow, well-defined text about O'Neill. Rather, he sacrifices a small amount of detail and scope to share with us the cardinal doctrines of O'Neill's philosophy, With this purpose in mind. Berlin is able to use evidence from Greek tragedy. Nietzsche's Dionysian philosophy and Freudian psychology to touch that fog that surrounded O'Neill. Though, as Berlin himself admits, his subject "wrote with a burning intensity that eludes description or analysis," that broadened picture makes the book worthwhile. O'Neill gazed into...
...years after Johnson's death, Robert A. Caro, already renowned for his biography of Robert Moses, has come forth with the first volume of a biography which through its scope and thoroughness, begins to explain the mystery of the man. Although Caro strikes a tone of undue self-righteousness in his account of some of Johnson's shadier moments, and too often takes such episodes as evidence of both moral and political bankruptcy, he has, on the whole, produced an admirable work. Taking 768 pages of text to tell the story of the first 33 years of Johnson's life...
...problem of editing is handled well through the section on MacLeish's years as a public servant in the forties. Just enough is given so that we get a sense of the scope of his massive re-organization of the Library of Congress, and of the variety of other duties he fulfilled in the Roosevelt administration, such as Assistant Secretary of State and director of the Office of Facts and Figures. There also comes some explanation of the convictions that motivated him to give up poetry for a time to serve his president and his country. He writes gratefully...
When else could you see over 100,000 people prove that they aren't color blind by lifting the correctly colored boards upon instruction. I don't know if I could ever for-give myself, if I'd missed that half-time kaleidosuper scope...