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...Neill, Carlotta said, could feel "real love" only for his plays. Only Oona survived O'Neill's catastrophic fatherliness, which seemed to consist of a month of misleading warmth and charm followed by years of neglect, or hostility. After a brilliant start as a Greek scholar at Yale, Eugene Jr. killed himself. Shane turned to heroin, Oona turned to Charlie Chaplin, and both were eventually disinherited. But the family, the scene of O'Neill's greatest failure as a man, was the occasion for his greatest success as a writer. O'Neill is uneven...
THIS APPROACH DEMANDS of the translator an extraordinary sensitivity to the feel of the original poetry. To invoke this, Fitzgerald began his reading by delivering the opening verses in Greek, with a warmth that left some of the audience reluctant to turn to English. But, reading the opening passage of his translation, Fitzgerald carried the audience through all the fine dramatic fluctuations of Achilles' initial dispute with Agamemnon...
...show is a good one. It combines theatricality and personal warmth with a welcome deceleration in the tempo of its numbers to provide some real satisfaction for the rock-and-roll lover. But while the new format is refreshing and novel, it is the change in the music itself that makes Sha Na Na's new concert worthwhile...
Though there is much to admire in Scorsese's film, one's feelings about it are finally ambivalent. Scorsese feels the chill of his mean streets in his bones, and he makes us feel it too. There is neither warmth nor comfort in the places his people seek to escape that cold. The very light of the film suggests a terrarium existence. The detailing is not just a matter of touches; it is an impasto that, instead of being a stylistic device, be comes the root substance of the work...
...other great comics--but Chaplin left all competitors far behind because on top of all the slapstick he was the most spirited and sympathetic character on the screen. His comedies affect me in an obscure way. I laugh, as at any good comedy, but then I feel a delicate warmth spreading all across me. During many of the funniest moments I don't laugh at all, just sit and smile the broadest smile I can imagine. No other artist is so lighthearted and yet so moving...