Word: snow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the recesses of the psyche, she is an explorer of the mental interior, reflecting on the roles of memory, meditation, myth and the male-female relationship. She successfully blended them all at the beginning of her 21-week Manhattan season in a new work called A Time of Snow, a somber retelling of the love and tragedy of Heloise and Abelard. The Graham dancers embraced the angular and knotty choreography with the familiar and loving assurance of craftsmen bred for their task...
...SNOWED IN SUMMER, by Florence Heide and Sylvia Van Clief, illustrated by Kenneth Longtemps (Funk & Wagnalls; $2.95). It is the hottest day of the year in New York City, too hot to do anything, so hot that Carrie puts ice cubes in her bath. But at nightfall, Jack Frost comes out of hiding, and Carrie and her doll, Loretta Cecelia, and all the other people in New York awake next morning to find everything covered with a blanket of snow. The story is unusually long, but the illustrations are captivating...
...BLACK SNOW by Mikhail Bulgakov. 190 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Master and Margarita, a rowdy satire written three decades ago that treats the Devil and the literary world of Moscow in the 1930s with equal seriousness (TIME, Oct. 27). The book was a great success in Russia and in the U.S. In 1965, Soviet literary authorities printed Black Snow, another satirical novel from Bulgakov's trunk. This is the book that leaves the great Stanislavsky with sour cream on his face...
...make their ropes out of bedsheets. He reads it to his literary friends. Awful, they say. He steals a revolver and determines to edit himself. As he is gluing his nerve together, the editor of a magazine bursts in and offers to serialize the novel (which is called Black Snow). The magazine expires after the second installment. By now Maxudov is too disgusted for suicide...