Word: shepherdess
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...WOODEN SHEPHERDESS by RICHARD HUGHES 389 pages. Harper & Row. $7.50. "All that nonfiction can do is answer questions," British Novelist Richard Hughes once said. "It's fiction's business to ask them." Yet Hughes is trying to have it both ways in his long multivolume historical novel about the roots of World War II, which began with The Fox in the Attic in 1962. He puts his imaginary characters through the usual novelistic hoops-love affairs, deaths, getting and spending. At the same time he trundles on historical figures like Hitler and Lloyd George to go through well...
...Lola was what the Victorians called "a superb piece." She had skin like a Dresden shepherdess, hair like a black velvet shawl, eyes that flashed and flickered like sapphires in firelight. When a man got her Irish up, she cut him across the face with a riding whip. She once fired a pistol at a disappointing lover. What Lola wanted, Lola...
...skill with which Hawkes handles his language, the presence of so many potentially heavy-handed symbols would be intolerable. If the tapestry metaphor provides a unifying principle, the images betray an artificial sense of indeterminacy: church icons, an eagle, the color orange, the children, a shepherdess and a shepherd, the fortress and the arbor, all these comprise a fabric of pretentious love and meaningless hatred. On a note of tragedy the tapestry grows sordid, but Cyril is so consistently enervated even the tragic sensation becomes a cheat...
...concert stage, Sutherland appears imposing and grandiose, like a friendly monarch. Sills strides onto a stage bobbing her head and grinning, like an elegant shepherdess. Where Sutherland sails into a fast aria with grand nonchalance, Sills is likely to bounce up and down with infectious self-enjoyment. Sutherland usually finishes with a smile and a regal bow, Sills with a somewhat defiant toss of her head as if to say: "There! Top that!" So far, nobody has been able to top either of them...
...sort. Strephon, the young shepherd who is fairy from head to waist and mortal on down, is usually played by romantic-lead types. Lithgow and Mushabac have cast an out-and-out comic in the role, and given him plenty of room to operate. Phyllis, the shepherdess Strephon loves, is pretty much of an ingenue part, but at Agassiz she is played mostly for laughs...