Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Begle's group admired the exciting experiments of Mathematician Max Beberman at the University of Illinois (TIME, July 25, 1960)-superb classroom artistry that lures children into discovering math concepts for themselves. But to make every teacher into a Beberman was clearly impossible. Begle aimed to write courses that most teachers could handle with only an hour a week of extra study...
Last week the Kirov led with its ace, Tchaikovsky's fluid, graceful Swan Lake. If the costumes were a trifle tacky, Simon Virsaladze's sets were superb: subtle, misty shadings of grey, blue and green bathed in a ghostly aquamarine light to evoke the haunting, elusive beauty of the lake and its enchanted bird-women. But it was the dancing that the audience came to see, and the dancing overshadowed everything else. Before the performance was well under way, a lithe, vivacious ballerina named Alia Sizova stopped the show with her lyrical dancing in the pas de trois...
...overcome by her innocence, swallows too much sublimity (or, one guesses later, too much despair). He returns to his hotel room, where his wife has been gabbling on the phone to her mother, and shoots himself through the head. Reasons for the cryptic suicide were suggested in a superb story written seven years later, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, in which Seymour's wedding day is recalled; it shows a sensitive, gentle, somewhat weak man about to tie himself to a mass of hair nets, deodorant bottles and parroted psychiatric untruths...
...gold bracelet from Athens, still attached to a severed arm, in memory of their affair). Before the first act is over she has seduced Pittakos' twin brother Phaon, the diver who recovers the tablets from the lost city. Like his Novelist Pursewarden in the Quartet, Durrell is a superb ironist, and the play's central theme-that man is responsible for his world as immutably as he is its victim-turns on the fact that Sappho herself has forced the destiny of Lesbos by deceitfully assuming the voice of the island's controlling oracle...
...Women, by Erskine Caldwell. A collection of the best short stories of an author whose touch with humor and horror is superb, and who deserves better than his reputation as a drugstore patent-fiction merchant...