Word: critically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Eric Bentley compared dramatic plots to peanuts in a speech Thursday night. "You may not like it, but you can't stop eating it," said the critic. "When I tell you incident A, you want incident...
...including Haydn, Schumann, Debussy and Rachmaninoff, playing each one with the uncanny air of direct communication that he conveys better than any other pianist alive. Under Richter's hands, even Debussy's much-abused Clair de Lune looked like a new moon. Wrote an all-but-wordless critic, the New York Herald Tribune's Jay Harrison: "Uncanny. It has to be heard to be believed...
Game of Ceremonies. "Dangerous jokes," huffed one critic; "I'm putting all my hope in puberty," declared another crushingly. Dubuffet's next show proved even more distressing, for by now he had begun painting with tar, sand, string, stones, glass and mud. "No doubt about it," snorted the Louvre's René Huyghe, "nothing in the head, nothing in the heart, and nothing in the hands...
...Personae," the word with which Ezra Pound titled his first book of poems, originally meant masks. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, who is 75 this week, has worn many. There is Pound the poet, critic, scholar and esthetic perfectionist. There is Pound the economic crank, anti-Semite and Fascist apologist. There is Pound the expatriate bohemian, the discoverer, friend, advocate and ally of Eliot and Joyce, who got them into print. He begged, wheedled, scolded, scandalized others and scanted himself to secure bread-and-but ter money for them and for many another subsequently famed writer. In that role...
...reveal the man behind the masks and to place the poet among his peers is an urgent task, but Critic Charles Norman (The Magic-Maker: e. e. cummings) has not done it. His book is a triumph of industry and a signal display of disorganization, a patchwork-letters, reminiscences, vignettes-of incoherent research. Apart from a few candid shots of its subject, the book is significant only because it treats Pound seriously and heralds the work that will treat him definitively. It is a reminder that he cannot be written off and must, more and more, be written about. Pound...