Word: texts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying to put together a magazine that can be both read and skimmed," says Gutwillig. Though the editors show a deft touch with short text blocks, few readers are going to be able to skim the three longish articles offered: a 5,400-word account by Syndicated Columnist Robert Novak of his November interview with China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, as well as the two cover stories on Rockefeller and Hearst...
During the Mass inside the starkly modern new basilica, the Pope read his sermon from a prepared Spanish text. He frequently invoked the Virgin Mary, who is venerated in his homeland as fervently as she is in Mexico. Said he: "We offer you the whole of this people of God. We offer you the church in Mexico and on the whole continent. We offer it to you as your own." Mindful of Latin America's desperate shortage of priests, he said later, "O Mother, awaken in the younger generation readiness for the exclusive service of God; implore...
...taken this troublesome text and given it a high-spirited once-over. Director Bill Cain, like the Duke in the play, sets up his machinery and watches it work--and he's more successful than the Duke ever can be. But he lets the audience fend for itself in the play's moral wilderness, relying on energy and competence rather than a consistent interpretation to pull them through. To be fair, any attempt at consistency in Measure for Measure would end up forcing parts of the play out of shape; but if directors never even tried, the play might just...
Such feats of improvisation, however, will soon be the stuff of nostalgia, tales to be recounted around a warm computer on a snowy weekend. Later this year TIME will start transmitting text and pictures electronically to its printing plants, a technological advance that will help our readers get the latest fast-breaking news, no matter how much it may storm in Chicago or anywhere around the world...
People have read everything from Marxist philosophy to Jungian depth psychology into Richard Wagner's operatic cycle Der Ring Des Nibelungen. Not least among the difficulties of untangling its 16 hours of music and text are the contradictions which Wagner, bursting with knowledge in many fields and expert in none, wrote into his own libretto. Yet Wagner always insisted that his "poetry" was the important thing and that his music existed only to serve...