Word: rewritten
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Andre Malraux is a great intellectual speculator. He floats, promotes and trades in ideas, and, thanks to his vast mental capital, never goes broke. More than a decade ago, in Psychology of Art, later rewritten as The Voices of Silence, Malraux launched the notion of the "Museum Without Walls." Among other things, this imaginary museum was a device for seeing the art of all ages out of context. With its equidistant tolerance toward previous cultures, and its technical means (reproductions, photographs) to appropriate the art objects of the past, the 20th century, according to Malraux, was the first civilization capable...
...book and lyrics have been rewritten, by Bill Hoffman and Marshall Barer respectively, in a grinding discord of styles: "Somebody goofed" alternates with "Such audacity deserves punishment." Mr. Marre has engaged Broadway performers rather than singers of any pretensions, but none of them can make very much headway against the stubbornly unfunny material...
...space between resort ads. This dubious responsibility fell either to hacks or to travel-ad salesmen; when the Milwaukee Sentinel, a Hearstpaper, decided to beef up its travel department, it reached into the ranks of the advertising department for an editor. Most travel stories were no more than barely rewritten handouts from railroads, tourist centers and Miami Beach...
Saroyan began rehearsals fortnight ago with little more than a title, has let dia logue grow out of onstage argument among the actors, has written and rewritten so furiously that there are seldom enough copies of the latest script to see the cast through a complete scene. But everyone agrees that the play is pure Saroyan the latest gust of a strong second wind that seems to be reviving a 51 -year-old writer who has long seemed written...
...sweeping Roman Catholic Bavaria struck Oberammergau, and its despairing inhabitants vowed that if they were spared they would perform a Passion play every ten years. This they have faithfully done, with few interruptions (including one in each World War), ever since. Over the years, the text has been repeatedly rewritten to suit the taste of the times, and music and pageantry have been added. The latest version was written...