Word: grunewald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bother? MURIEL MONTEKIO New York City Sir: The attack by Alfred Kazin is off the mark. All creative artists use exaggeration as a tool. This is as true of a Beethoven symphony as of the distorted figure of a Gothic saint as of the distorted pointing finger of Matthias Grunewald. The literary artist also by necessity must choose the exaggerated and often grisly side, especially the dramatist. Characters like incestuous Oedipus or child-murdering Medea are as "immoral" as the deplored modern ones, and so, for that matter, are Macbeth or Hamlet. FREDERICK P. BORNSTEIN El Paso...