Word: stark
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imperial prince. The glistening, silky backs that one time bore the heir to the British throne through many of the most brilliant hunts that the world has seen, are doomed to sigh under the weight of common people, unnoticed, ignored. The days of glory are passed and stark realism shatters the roseate glow of the skies of romance...
...course, a challenging play, as are all that come from this pen. It is told with strange confusion. O'Neill again resorts to the "aside," which he revived for Strange Interlude, and, at times, to the stark staccato of the new school. These make for cloudiness but the play frequently transcends its uncertainty with moments of eerie suspense. And the dia log is often shot through with a fine fire of poetry. It is played against elemental backgrounds designed by Lee Simonson which do much to soften its rough edges...
...darkness of the park, on the bridge watching the black swirls of the grim river, still and stark on the slab in the white morgue--the caprice of nature lives and dies. Life in the well of loneliness. Radclyffe Hall beckons with a sympathetic smile, a book in her hand, for mankind to come to the aid of the lost. But contrary to her intentions, her humane gesture is greeted only with the crash of tea cups on polite floors, the sneers of the intellectuals, and the holy pronunciamentos of of the court of civil law. Despite the while...
Thomas Hardy, famed apostle of gloom, lives up to his reputation in this volume of poems posthumously published. But the very gloom makes for stark beauty...
Stripped of all ornament, bare and ruthless, the stark tragedy of the crash and of the separation of the party of survivors after nerves and bodies had broken under the long vigile on the ice make a story that should hold romanticist and realist alike. The castaways themselves tell of the great white silence and its terror...