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Based on Joanne Greenberg's 1964 novel, it gives an earnest, intelligent account of Deborah Blake, a teen-ager who returns from suicidal fantasy to a precarious willingness to give life another try. It is a success story, but a measured, qualified one (the title line is the psychiatrist's reply when Deborah complains that reality is painful and difficult compared with the security of the imaginary desert gods who rule her sick mind). The same thing can be said of the movie: it leaves one feeling respectful but not deeply impressed or moved...
...American Composer George Crumb. Gimmickry aside, Star-Child turned out to be a work of immense power, daring and, at times, even horror. A requiem of sorts drawn primarily from two anonymous medieval texts, Dies Irae and Massacre of the Innocents, Star-Child is imbued with the same Blake-like contrast of innocence and evil that characterizes much of Crumb's other work, notably Ancient Voices of Children and Black Angels...
...fans in the arena and the estimated 2½ million who watched on a nine-state television hookup saw a game to remember. The Cougars' guards managed to contain Folk's White, but Forward Sharon Blake benefited from the defensive attention lavished on her teammate, sinking 22 points. Kennedy's Sisters Mossbarger, alternately swapping guard and forward positions, proved devastating under the boards. The lead changed hands 14 times before the half ended in a 26-26 tie, and seesawed again in the second half until, with 44 seconds remaining. Blake sank a basket and a free...
Frye's intellectual progenitors are a varied lot. He readily admits his debt to Blake, who sparked his interest in mythology and myth-making. With Blake and the other Romantics, Frye shares a powerful faith in the human imagination as a potential agent of individual and social transformation. For Frye, mythologies, as imaginative universes, are not primitive stabs at science, but "rather an attempt to articulate what is of greatest human concern to the society that produces it." In his exaltation of the imagination, he goes so far as to view poetic myth as embodying a higher order of reality...
...student radicalism are drawn. The next portion of the book, "The Mythological Universe," provides a useful overview of Frye's general critical principles and their application to the theory of literary modes. The final section, the most technical, contains essays on four of Frye's favorite poets--Milton, Blake, Yeats and Wallace Stevens--all of whom he has commented on before...