Word: wertherisms
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...Ferro" and Pia have been singing and murmuring to each other ever since. Married in 1941, they delighted Italy and South America with their Tosca, La Boheme and Werther, but the U.S. had only heard them sing together in concert. They ended each concert with the Duet of the Cherries from the first opera they had sung together in Palermo...
...Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther (eight U. S. editions in 16 years) made fashionable that last, exquisite self-indulgence of the sentimentalist: suicide...
...plot it is simple enough: at 63, Charlotte Kestner, née Buff, who in her youth inspired young Goethe to the writing of Werther, turns up in Weimar, ostensibly to visit relatives, more privately and far more shakily, in the thought of meeting Goethe once more, in the full-blown, chilly grandeur of his age. She is besieged by gawpers, beset by callers who wish to talk to and make some use of her; Goethe stages, in her honor, a formal luncheon; she meets him again, more intimately, in his theatre box; and that...
...Humphrey Juliet Crowder, Wellesley Robert T. Hurley Phebe Perry, Vassar Albert F. Hyde, II Alison Gilman, Winsor School Carl H. Imlay Barbara Cosgrovo, Simmons, Sidney C. Jackson Julie Ann Dolan, Simmons Eugene P. Johnson Barbara Sommes, Simmons Charles W. Joyce Jane Hill, Sarah Lawrence Summer R. Katze Clare Werther, Endicott Maxwell Kaufer Doroty Cohen, Wellesley George T. Kelton Lydia Vorillov, Radcliffe Caleb Kendall Phyllis Thompson, Belmont Robert B. Kent Jane Schultz, Palm Beach Samuel L. Kent Jean Ellen duPont, Wilmington, Del. Theodore S. Kenyon, Jr. Jean White, Wellesley Drue King, Jr. Hope Imes, Wellesley Henry P. King, Jr. Sylvia Choate...
Those were romantic years. In Philadelphia a girl said: "Every girl should have one Clifford Odets in her life." In Springfield, Mass., there was a "horrible, exquisite" love affair "with something of the Sorrows of Werther about it." In Manhattan there was an unheated railroad flat near Tenth Avenue which Odets shared with eight other people. (The last time this flat was mentioned in print, the landlord wrote to Odets: "You still owe us money.'') Coal for the stove being expensive, the roomers sat around wrapped in blankets. Odets mastered the art of making potato pancakes...