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...role, but that he communicate to the audience the fact that he is an actor, making his own judgement of what the character does. Azdak is Brecht's ideal man, sympathetic to the aspirations of the masses, never condemning their immorality or brutality, and always ready to assume whatever mask his situation requires. In danger of being executed by the henchmen of the governor's wife, he is servile; he cringes and begs without pride, knowing that he is more useful alive than dead. Michaels is in complete control of his character and of the stage. Occasionally he lapses into...
...Precedent. But the closeness of the popular vote could not mask the real measure of Jack Kennedy's victory. He was the first Roman Catholic ever to be elected President, and he achieved this without leaving any important scars. He had propelled himself by sheer drive into the Democratic nomination, had rebuilt the old Democratic coalition of Northern big cities and Southern conservatives, outdoing even Franklin Roosevelt in rallying the support of Catholic, Jewish and Negro voters. He had broken all precedent by persuading a nation to make a massive change in its vote when his predecessor...
...Jamaican can explain the couple's embarrassingly Negroid blessing. For all its apparent defiance of realism, this kind of Spark fiction-typical of most tales in this collection-has honest intentions: to make vivid the author's conviction that the face of the world is a mask, and that the real hoax is on those...
...London. Pound headed for the salons in his "stage poet" mask - green billiard-cloth trousers, pink coat, blue shirt, an immense sombrero, a Mephistophelean red-blond beard and a single turquoise earring. An even better attention-getting device was Personae, published in 1909, in which he first struck the tone of most modern Anglo-American poetry - spare, objective, unornamented, elliptic. Dante, the medieval troubadours, and his pet hate-love Whitman had been his tutors, but he had done the homework of craftsmanship. (In one undergraduate year he had written a sonnet a day.) Though stripped for action, many of Pound...
...considerable richness of tone and the wind section demonstrated considerable agility in tackling Debussy's tricky rhythmic figurations. The only section that suffered a bit from the non-mystical reading was the first Nuages. Here, clouds must somehow be evoked; the orchestral texture must be thick enough to mask entrances and cutoffs. If not, as happened last night, things tend to seem bleak and bit arbitrary...