Word: stubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history of 20th century European art, is fundamentally foreign to the individualistic tradition in the United States." No effort, no matter how brusque, could make a Yankee-myth existential art hero of this methodical sexagenarian, enacting his work ethic in a studio organized down to the last pencil stub...
...problem with staging Kafka is that Kafka's realism is a tactile, not a visual one. K. is a faceless man in a Janus-faced world where you stub your toe on invisible rocks and hang your head against undetectable walls. It is a universe of paradox, people by bureaucrats, Chinese emperors and courts of law: all of which may or may not be mythical depending on whether you subscribe to them or not. To translate this state of affairs into performable drama is a challenge that Sanders and in some spots the Ensemble have barely missed meeting...
Watch out for the Register-Yearbok application stub. Don't check the box or send a check that covers the purchase of both. You probably will want a copy of the Register (with your picture in it, of course) to check up on where the kid you met at the Union yesterday is from. But for about a decade. Crimson reviewers have panned the Yearbook, and the one you'll get will be abridged anyway--without the pictures of graduating seniors whom you may meet your first year. Many freshmen purchase both, not knowing what the Yearbook is: a bunch...
...remarks, in a line straight out of Laugh-In. Hitler's doctor appears; he describes how he has come to suspect a link between smoking and lung cancer. "Disgusting," the patient snaps. Nobody is at ease with him. Goebbels, rigidly clasping an umbrella pole, hastily jettisons a cigarette stub when Hitler appears...
...book reviewer of the highest order, and a scorner most subtle, Wilfrid Sheed can light up another man's novel, amuse the children by blowing smoke rings for a quarter of an hour, and then stub out the butt with a gesture so incisive that the wretched author resolves to forswear literature and apprentice himself to a tree surgeon. But Sheed is also a novelist himself, so skilled that a few years ago, in Max Jamieson, he managed to write a strong and eloquent novel whose main character was a critic. The feat was the equivalent of successfully memorializing...