Word: zenith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Night (Lopert) begins at noon. In brilliant sunshine, silently, from the summit of a glittering skyscraper, from the zenith of man's pride and material achievement, the camera descends relentlessly into the convenient hell of a meaningless marriage, into a dark and joyless night of the contemporary soul imagined with monstrous art by Michelangelo Antonioni, the somber master of cinema who made L'Avventura (TIME, April...
...Municipal University of Omaha. Things were rough there, too. in his father's home town: "There was a certain crowd always jeering at me." But he did form a permanent, hoops-of-steel friendship with a student named Stormy McDonald, son of the late president of the Zenith Radio Corp. "He became my brother," says Peter. "He gave me my philosophy: above all else, be true to yourself. Everybody who's been in contact with me knows Stormy." In 1960 he left without graduating and did summer stock in upstate New York...
...Green Mare (Zenith-International) is what happens when the French take another whack at Fanny. Like that famously funny film first made by Marcel Pagnol, The Green Mare is a comedy of barnyard humors adapted from a ribald but rusé ironic novel by Marcel Aymé. Regrettably, Director Claude Autant-Lara lacks both Pagnol's touch and Aymé's intensity. The Green Mare ain't what she used to be. Nevertheless she is, as the French say, green-which means, as the Americans say, blue. The plot, for example, involves a Rabelaisian family feud...
Dismembered Monastery. At the zenith of his career, Hearst's empire included 26 daily papers, 11 magazines, 13 million readers and 38,000 salaried subjects. He owned mines and ranches in Mexico, $50 million in mid-Manhattan real estate, $50 million in objets d'art (including a dismembered monastery), and castles all over. On his vast timberlands at Wyntoon, in Northern California, he refused to let a single tree be cut. Any aspect of death dismayed him utterly...
...strict Aristotelian, Shakespeare is a kind of monumental fluke of genius, and Steiner skillfully covers a century of frantic effort among playwrights and critics to make Shakespeare and Sophocles compatible within the house of tragedy. The zenith of the neoclassic movement was Racine, and Steiner makes a powerful case for him as the last bona fide playwright of tragedy. The fact remains that Racine's greatest play, Phedre, draws half its impact from the Greek myth and Euripidean play on which it is based...