Word: critically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stephen Spender, English poet and critic, will speak on "The Outer and Inner Worlds of Goethe" at 8 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theater. The talk is a part of the University's three-month Goethe Bicentennial celebration...
...With its sharp claws and ruthless clawing, its treacherous wiles and wheelchair theatrics, The Little Foxes might have yielded something inordinately operatic. But though his big scenes are sometimes florid enough, Composer Blitzstein's version of the Alabama Hubbards is fundamentally comic. Regina much less suggests a social critic excoriating an emerging class of plunderers than a first-rate showman exhibiting a prize assortment of hellions. Blitzstein's Hubbards cavort the whole time they conspire, and the general effect is of exuberance rather than tension...
Another problem is that some prizes have long since become dated. The award of approximately $70 for the "best essay on the life, work, or interests of John Ruskin" attracted only two entrants last year. When the award was instituted over 20 years ago, that English author and critic was much more highly regarded than he is today...
...Garcons, Jeanne d'Arc); lovely Kate Kamen and her shrewd, spectacled husband Kay, the man responsible for bringing Mickey Mouse watches, stuffed Donald Ducks and other Disney-fathered creatures into millions of U.S. nurseries. There was dynamic young (30) Ginette Neveu who in 1947, according to one critic, stepped "practically unknown" upon the stage at Carnegie Hall "and left it as one of the top-rank violinists of our time." Ginette and her brother, Pianist Jean Neveu, were coming to the U.S. for a series of concerts. With her she brought her "most prized possession"-a Stradivarius violin...
...Brattle Theatre Company's treatment of two Shavian pieces is an uneven one, and decidedly not up to the potentialities of that group. The selections, however, were happy ones. The scene of Don Juan in Hell from "Man and Superman" gives us Shaw, the serious and at once entertaining critic of society, presenting his provocative cosmology. "The Millionaires" is a farcical treatment of this same cosmology. In both, Shaw's gifts for coining paradoxes and his penetration are at their best...