Word: y
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only one man in Castello refuses to take sides. Seventy-year-old Father Yánaros is the last of a distinguished line of Kazantzakis heroes-sweaty, seedy, tortured saints, torn between faith and doubt, hope and despair, a yearning for solitude and a compulsion to aid their fellow men. Yánaros travels through life as if on a tightrope, or as he puts it, dancing barefoot on hot coals: "Every saint is a firewalker. And so is every honest man in this hell we call life...
...hoisted their banser, "We Support Berkely (sic) Free Speech," on the black board. "Take it down quick before they photograph it," one student cried suddenly, "Berkeley is spelled wrong." A Brandeis co-ed supplied a red stick of lipstick, and an "e" was inserted between the "I" and the "y...
...published by Thomas Y. Crowell Co. and it's only $6.95 at your nearest bookstore," Santa Claus told them, slipping some eggnog into Jove's hand...
...published soon after an event for the sole purpose of selling copies. Fred C. Shapiro and James Sullivan have produced the almost inevitable hodge-podge of decent reporting, vignettes both tired and telling, and banal analysis that rarely moves beyond the superficialities of a Time cover story. Thomsa Y. Crowell Company, the publisher, might just as well have reprinted old newspaper articles with an appendix of personal reminiscences from policemen, reporters, and others present during the ricts...
Director Stephen Most has considerably obscured this question, however, by a highly stylized interpretation. Amy Singewald, as Miss Y, moves like a sleepwalker, holds peculiar positions, and gazes out into the audience with large, vacant eyes. There is a hint that she is the weaker, but she seems to come from a world where that concept doesn't apply...