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...Greek temper is erratic, the Greek tempo seduces Durrell with its essential timelessness. Sky, sea and air are the only absolutes, and full absolution; Durrell is convinced that the Greeks live "beyond good and evil." The only space that matters to them is the spot they occupy. Asked the distance to a neighboring town, a Corfiote villager would reply with the number of cigarettes smoked in transit. With the reminder that "Poverty is the Tenth Muse" of Greece, Durrell makes the inevitable attempt to define the national character: It "is based on the idea of the impoverished and downtrodden little...
...rain pelted a Chrysler sedan racing through the night toward Lincoln on U.S. 6, a straight and lonely stretch of Nebraska blacktop. The elephantine semitrailers, lumbering west, flung blobs of muddy film at the windshield as the car sped past them, slowing the metronome wipers to largo tempo. Inside, the three people huddled together in the front seat were as melancholy as the weather and the night. Bob Conrad, Nebraska's Democratic senatorial nominee, hunched over the wheel, peering grimly into the darkness. Beside him, pretty, black-haired Helen Abdouch, executive secretary...
...prostitution that has occurred since a law sponsored by Socialist Angelina Merlin banned state-supervised brothels in 1958 (Merlin advocates insist it is only coincidence). But last week the Health Ministry reported that cases of syphilis registered in state clinics have doubled since 1957, and Rome's II Tempo charged that "the number of prostitutes has shown a marked increase." Since the Merlin law reforms, prostitutes can be jailed in Italy only when caught in the act. To guard against this misfortune, the klaxon girls have begun mounting lookouts on Lambrettas. Last week Milan's cops nabbed...
Styan analyzes passages of dramatic dialogue, showing how they differ from ordinary conversation; discusses dramatic verse and how it is used; investigates meanings, impressions, and the devices actors use to interpret a text. He goes on to some of the more complex problems of drama: sequence, tempo, continuity, character manipulation, overall meaning. The book concludes with chapters on audience participation, judgment of plays, and playgoing...
...brilliant, rhythmically complex work shot through with passages of surprisingly simple and appealing lyricism; Smith's is a quiet, ten-minute exercise full of odd sonorities. The orchestra plays them both cleanly, with notable purity of tone. The Sessions symphony was taken at a faster tempo than the composer intended, Watanabe recalls, and when Sessions heard of it he cabled, urging that they stick to the "correct tempo." Instead, Watanabe forwarded the tapes and got a second cable from Sessions: "I surrender...