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CHARLES R. STARK...
Solzhenitsin's stark account, the first detailed description of Stalin's prison camps ever published in Russia, sold 40,000 copies on newsstands and a second printing of 100,000 was ordered. Glowing reviews, which compared the author to Tolstoy, appeared simultaneously in several newspapers, and it was reported that Khrushchev himself had read the story before publication and cleared...
...second Lorca play at the Loeb this season, The House of Bernarda Alba, is a stark drama polished down to essentials. It contains the essence of Lorca's dramatic technique, though poetry is much less prominent here than in Blood Wedding, which ran on the main stage earlier this fall. Happily, the North House production of Bernarda Alba preserves Lorca's restrained tone; it is a remarkably balanced production of consistent good quality...
...said. "Sop up every experience of life, and then don't forget to wring yourself dry in expression." What Wyeth has sopped up in his 45 years is the vast interior of a geographically limited world in which "every hill is a personal feeling." If his paintings seem stark and spare, it is because he wants to "pull things down to simplicity." He has an unerring sense of composition: anything that interferes with "the essence" of a picture is ruthlessly eliminated. He prefers winter over summer, because in winter the trees are naked and the earth more fully revealed...
...fall comes swiftly, as one by one, the characters in Phaedra plunge into the vortex of tragedy, stark and classic...