Word: worke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Krauss said he is trying to express human values in his own design work. His plan for a French town emphasizes the individual unit rather than large scale development...
...more than "pseudo-literary exhibitionism," the product of a burned-out mind and of little significance to anyone but academics doing studies on the evil effects of narcotics. William F. Buckley Jr., writing in this week's New York Times Book Review, predictably attributes Thompson's work to "a very nearly unrelieved distemper," and comments that he "elicits the same kind of admiration one would feel for a streaker at Queen Victoria's funeral...
...other Shakespearean play has elicited such a range of interpretation and evaluation. If Agate declared it one of his "unfavorite" plays in the canon, Dover Wilson thought it Shakespeare's greatest work, Wilson Knight and Henry James placed it at the top of English literature, and Quiller-Couch proclaimed it the supreme work in all literature. For me, it has unsurpassed moments, but as a whole ranks below The Winter's Tale among the four late romances. Everyone agrees that the play means more than it says, but what that meaning is remains a bone of vigorous contention...
...think either he or the director intended. Haigh's load this summer is enough to tire anyone: when he is not doing Prospero, he is playing either Brutus (an even longer role) or Malvolio. At any rate, his Prospero is not yet a sustained piece of work...
...doctors' diagnoses are the frame work of the Ryans' book. But between them lies the real story: a family's love and strength even as the disease, in Kathryn's words, "strikes and scars them all." The adolescent crises of the Ryans' two children, all but ignored in the face of the family catastrophe, have serious repercussions. Their son Geoff, after experimenting with drugs, runs away from home...