Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your article was superb. The public should be informed about these organizations. The American press has been woefully negligent in telling our people just what has been going on in the land of the free and the home of the brave...
Both Genet and Ionesco are admittedly ill at case with the dramatic illusion. So it is more than coincidental that both explore the possibilities of the play within the play, and make stringent demands on their actors. In The Chairs, Stanley Jay and Mary Alice Bayth do a superb job, turning emptiness into a tangible reality. Had this standard been sustained after intermission, much might have been done to put M. Genet's poetry into context and to make his fury more comprehensible. Sylvia Gassel, though, could not innoculate her long, apocalyptic soliloquies with meaning, and the audience lapsed from...
Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. These two related stories about a young girl's brush with religious obsession are a superb part of the story cycle the author is writing about the prodigious Glass family...
MASTERPIECES OF JAPANESE SCULPTURE, with text by J. Edward Kidder Jr. (328 pp.; Tuttle; $27.50). A large, well-illustrated historical survey; the photographs, most of them black and white, are superb, and the compilers have broken up what might have been a tedious procession of figures with excellent detailed closeups. The subjects, of course, run to delicate, serene Buddhas and wrathy temple guards, and they are delightful...
...ARTS OF ASSYRIA, by André Parrot (383 pp.; Golden Press; $25). The extraordinary book-by-book progress through the history of art, proposed by France's Minister of Culture André Malraux and begun this year in the superb volume Sumer: The Dawn of Art (TIME, June 2), is continued with an equally lavish book on Assyria. The grim, skilled art of the warrior peoples who fought in the Mesopotamian valleys-it includes magnificent lion hunts as well as gloomy strings of captives-has never been presented better. Familiar bas-reliefs are well done in black and white...