Word: starke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Synge's work is a tragedy in undertones; and Vaughan Williams has effectively captured the stark and broken tones of the mutterings of Synge's Irish peasants. But the peasants themselves are not intrinsically interesting. Maurya, the matriarchal mother, has lost a husband and five sons to the sea before the play begins; during it she loses the sixth--he rides the family mare into the sea--and is left, stoically resigned to life, with two unmarried daughters. ("They are all gone now, and there isn't anything more the sea can do to me. We must be satisfied...
Outside grants to the University for Nieman Fellows have been made before, one of which is also for a specialist. The Louis Stark Fund has financed a one-year leave of absence for a labor reporter...
...scene between Elektra and Orest, to Elektra's shrieking "Stab her once more!" at the news that Klytaemnestra had been struck down. But the performance also was a reminder that Elektra no longer has the almost physical shock value it possessed in Strauss's time: overlaying the stark story is a thin coat ing of German Gemütlichkeit that too often turns passion to mere posturing. What redeemed the Met's Elektra was a splen did job of conducting by Joseph Rosenstock and the singing of Soprano Borkh, who rose triumphantly over the raging orchestra with...
...Schirmbeck is a metaphysical novelist of considerable imagination and hubris who is desperately concerned with recementing the duality whose halves are customarily called reason and feeling, truth and grace, science and morality, or mathematics and poetry. A character in his novel-itself a disturbing duality, part murky hokum, part stark reality-expresses the wish to be the first poet of modern physics. Clearly he speaks for the author, a German science-journalist, and if Schirmbeck's book falls short of poetry and has some irritating left-wing political overtones, it is nevertheless an extraordinary novel of ideas...
...cold war front that Kennedy talked in stark terms of onrushing national danger. Items...