Word: darknesse
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Candle in the Darkness
In Adlai Stevenson's eulogy for Mrs. Roosevelt, he said: "She would rather light candles than curse the darkness," which I believe was a paraphrase of "It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness."
Mr. Eric Levenson who doubled as set-designer and an actor in Lefty is an economic, sensible set-designer. He provided some feeling for the darkness of those days.
Odets' polemic, a series of personal, middle-class tragedies and individual dislocations, evokes the darkness and anger of 1935. Rosaldo, who understood the stock figures he had to work with, decided to type-cast his actors and let them exaggerate their characters. The result is some fine gusto on the...
Most of Jones's paintings tend to be dark, but not because of any preoccupation with death. He describes his own act of painting as "a kind of fidgeting to make the figure emerge. I put in, I wipe out, I put back in. I change the shape of...