Word: isherwood
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...grotesque spectacle of being stranded in Los Angeles, that sub-Fellinian mammalian circus. His wit has also prevented the vegetative decay which afflicts so many old artists. The man who has known and worked with almost every major artist in this country, has lived in Los Angeles with Huxley, Isherwood, Mann, and Schocnberg, and seen all but Isherwood pass away, is essentially a happy spirit...
...with Cabaret, Prince took these innovations a step further. This musical, based on Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories, had an emcee (Joel Grey), ? ? nothing to do with the work's plot-or other characters. Still, he had a large percentage of the musical's songs-numbers uninte grated into the action, merely commenting upon it. The device worked brilliantly and, in the process, went a long way towards undoing the modernizing Richard Rodgers and friends had done twenty-five years earlier. With 1968's Zorba, Prince continued the device-in the form of a Greek chorus-and, this time, even...
Auden traveled to Berlin in 1927 and was joined by Isherwood two years later. "My parents said I could go abroad for year," he recalled. "The generation before mine was influenced heavily by French culture. I went to ??????? Paris. As it turned out, it was an interesting time to go. In the midtwenties, you can't imagine how safe life seemed. My father had been at the war, but I had never thought any thing might happen to him. At Berlin, I realized the foundations were shaking." And at Berlin, surrounded by the hysteria, madness, and mission that culminated...
...years ago shows a young man with a sharp face, his blond hair flopping in his eyes, a hand raised to light the cigarette pressed between his lips. Thirty years ago, Auden was the leader of the "Auden generation" -a group of young poets that included Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood, and C. Day Lewis. He was young then, as he followed the revolutions in Spain and China, and his reputation and influence grew rapidly. Today, as he shuttles annually from homosexual domesticity in the Austrian village of Kirschteten to an East Village apartment on New York's St. Marks place...
Auden's early collaborator, Christopher Isherwood, recalls: "You could say to him: 'Please write me a double ballade on the virtues of a certain brand of toothpaste, which also contains at least ten anagrams on the names of well-known politicians, and of which the refrain is as follows . . .' Within 24 hours, your ballade would be ready-and it would be good...