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Great River, by Paul Hotgan. A superb history of the Rio Grande country from Indian idylls through Mexican wars down to the present, with the immense landscape as a backdrop (TIME...
Against a blackening backdrop of despair, the U.S. outlined its new plan to try to save South Viet Nam (pop. 10.5 million) from Communism. The U.S. plan, debated for the past six weeks with French and Vietnamese, is much less ambitious than expected. Fundamentals...
...infested cellar), his will to work gone sour. He leaves his wife and remaining children because there is literally no room for him in their miserable one-room apartment. But after 15 years of marriage, Fred and Kate Bogner have become a habit with each other. Against a backdrop of Rhineland prosperity, symbolized by a convention of German druggists, Fred borrows enough money to rent a cheap hotel room so that he and his wife can meet without the children seeing or the neighbors listening...
Some observers admired the staging, which was done under Composer Henze's direction. The backdrop was surrealistic, the action stark; much of the time dancers moved in the distance, derisively, sometimes vulgarly satirizing the downstage action. But the critics denounced the work unanimously, suggested that the composer was too much the child of a corrupt and violent age. "His soul," wrote Il Tempo's critic, "is a page on which the evils of our age have written cruel words...
...sensual love, and greed are the themes of the Night of the Hunter. But Grubb does not comment on them through his characters, they are merely components for good story-telling. Setting his characters in the Ohio River valley of West Virginia, he makes the great Ohio both a backdrop, and a kindly provider for the two helpless, terrified children that are his subjects...