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...Sondheim, during a talk at Harvard last week, embellished on this a bit more: "I have an opera in mind--very unexperimental, very straight-forward, very linear--just about people screaming at each other. Lots of blood and horror...
...lecture was given by "Doctor D.", a professor of English Literature at a nearby college. He explained that the family was unified by a common goal; to help and care for all people. His lecture was not as straight-forward: he filled it with psychology and sociology and threw in some Wordsworth and Eliot quotes that I remembered from English 10. He seemed to be a nice guy and since I had read a little psych, it seemed sound to me. Yeah, these were the people I'd been looking for--intelligent, personal, and liberal...
...Russell, a graduate of Boston University who teaches at Boston's Art Institute, takes pictures of the corners and sides of buildings. His photographs, seemingly simple and straight-forward, are carefully composed studies of the textures and geometry of a man-made environment in which, trees and-bushes and the crumpled, black shadow left behind by an unseen figure are exotic and often witty interlopers. One of his best photographs is a picture of the thick base of a tree, its bark the texture of an elephant's hide, surrounded by the long, slender fronds and serrated edges of various...
There's a lot more to Frye's criticism; this is just a rough sketch. His elegantly straight-forward approach and his vast knowledge of literature is something you will have to experience in person. Perhaps the real beauty of Northrop Frye is that be can't be classified. As he says, "those who are incapable of distinguishing between a recognition of archetypes and a Procrustean methodology which forces everything into a prefabricated scheme would be well advised to leave the whole question alone." Since Frye is something of an archetype himself, maybe it's better to let him make...
...wrote the best paper I've ever done in my life. The subject: American Impressionist Mary Cassatt. One of the few woman artists to gain critical recognition, and one of two Americans whose work hangs in the Louvre, Cassatt made images of women and children that are honest, straight-forward and, above all, very human. Her best works are her prints. The Raltimore Museum put together an exhibit of her graphic work several years ago that I kick myself for missing, but through December 31, the Alpha Gallery at 121 Newbury St. is presting a selection of her prints, along...