Word: kafka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is like Kafka," muttered tried-and-blue Comedian Lenny Bruce, 37, hung up at Idlewild Airport by customs officials after a fast round trip to Britain, where the Home Office denied him entry. His London nightclub booking set off a parliamentary furor-"If we want four-letter words," sniffed a Tory M.P., "we can train our own people"-but that was the least of Lenny's worries. Back home, he was booked solid. Appealing a one-year jail sentence for an obscenity conviction in Chicago, he faced a similar charge in California, plus two narcotics raps. Wherever...
Director Anatole Litvak tangles the skein of fate with finesse; from Sophia he has coaxed some fine flashes of doe-eyed terror, and he has allowed Tony to prove what a convincing actor he can be when he is not embroiled with Kafka or Racine...
...Trial. Orson Welles presents Kafka in chiaroscuro, an adaptation filled with wondrous Wellesian camera work, spectacularly haunting sets, and a troupe of actors who try to outdo themselves and-in some instances-end up by being undone...
...Cambridge, Homer D. Q. Tobit '64 was seen reading Kafka's The Castle in Lamont Library. At 11:24 he glanced out the window of the third level reading room. By 11:25 he had deposited his reading fare in a nearby receptacle, forgotten Humanities 119, and left the tomblike gloom of the library with the comment, "I am going to participate in the rebirth of the land...
...Trial. Orson Welles presents Kafka in chiaroscuro, an adaptation filled with wondrous Wellesian camera work, spectacularly haunting sets, and a troupe of actors who try to outdo themselves and-in some instances-end up by being undone...