Word: zweig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playing at Marriage. With fresh insights drawn from heretofore unexamined documents and a scholarly reappraisal of well-known records, Author Castelot has more than justified still another biography of the hapless Queen. His book gives nothing in scholarship to Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette, the staple for U.S. readers for the last 24 years, and (due in part to an excellent translation by Denise Folliot) excels it in readability...
...measured against his contemporaries in the German language-Gerhart Hauptmann, Rilke, Kafka, Stefan Zweig et al.-Mann was still a giant. And against charges that he was "Olympian," "pompous," "ponderous," he could well defend himself: "My endeavor," he wrote, "is to make the heavy light; my ideal is clarity; and if I write long sentences-a tendency inherent in the German tongue-I make it my business, not without success, to maintain the utmost transparency and spoken rhythm." In German he was an exquisite stylist, and he brought to that language a new sensitivity in the art of storytelling...
During the two years it has been on TV, Producer Worthington Miner's Studio One (CBS, Mon. 10 p.m.) has won more awards than any other dramatic program, largely because of its professional competence and grown-up storytelling. Last week, Studio One tackled Stefan Zweig's Letter from An Unknown Woman, a melodrama about a heartless Viennese composer (Melvyn Douglas) and a seamstress (Viveca Lindfors). Televiewers who expected to see the usual bang-up production, saw instead a shambles...