Word: writting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lawd Today, by Richard Wright. Writ ten before Native Son, but now published for the first time (three years after Wright's death), this novel of a brutalized Chicago Negro in the 1930s is a grim reminder of a time, not long ago, when the pain caused by race prejudice was mainly economic...
...more distinctively American than any other in serious music. Its repertory is top-heavy with German works (Beethoven is played nearly twice as much as Tchaikovsky, the most popular non-Germanic composer), and it has no hampering patriotic duties to the national culture: it plays very little music writ ten in its own land. But its hybrid birth and its international spirit spare it the national mannerisms that mark most European orchestras, and it plays with a freshness and flexibility that make each orchestra unique...
...East and from the West. Russia and America are not states, in the sense that France and Italy are states; they are continents. Their triumphal meeting on the Elbe permanently erased the independence of Europe, which lay exhausted and bewildered between them. At almost the same time, Europe's writ over the southern two thirds of the world expired...
...papers not yet writ, you shake your head...
...have had it with aristocracies. Corrupt, sleek, lascivious queer or cruel, Italian, French or Spanish, they all amount to the same thing on the screen: vacuity writ large. But the most banal set of all lives in Argentina. Its members are as vapid, unsophisticated and coarse a covey of brightly feathered birds as I have seen in film. Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (director of End of Innocence) records their antics in Summerskin, a cheap and pretentious story in the worst possible taste...