Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Becket himself-whom Henry made archbishop as his shield against the church, only to emerge Becket's target-rewardingly probed. This is a troublesome task, for Becket's abrupt shift from worldling to ascetic, from Henry's helpful administrator to his hostile priest, needs probing; indeed, the whole unsimple man who suddenly found God needs probing. But the Becket whom a historian has dubbed "a great actor superbly living the parts he was called upon to play" seems far less than that, even with a great actor, Laurence Olivier, on hand to play him. Olivier...
...account of illness, a change of school, a change of home, the birth of a sibling, or an illness in the parents. When the time comes for school, he digs in his heels and flatly refuses to go." Then a psychiatrist is often needed to perform the difficult task of weaning mother and child from each other. If the home situation appears unlikely to improve, says the B.M.J., the best solution may be to separate the child from his parents, send him to a boarding school...
...tell the entire Hitler story in one massive volume. A former reporter and newscaster, Shirer covered Germany and the Nazis from 1925 until the U.S. entered the war, and his bestselling Berlin Diary (TIME, June 23, 1941) was one of the earliest casebooks of Nazi practice. To his huge task Shirer brings only modest writing gifts, but he has an advantage that swamps all shortcomings: his material is horribly fascinating. He has done thorough research in captured documents, in books and in diaries. The result is a panoramic exposure of Naziism in practice that may lack literary stature...
...Americans. The relation is not one of possession or even one of pleaser and pleased: to Brecht, for example, whose plays are "for" audiences in the most explicit sense, the last thing de- sired was that the audience should be "pleased" in any fashion Broadway understands. The playwright's task and the actor's and the director's and the designer's is to hold that necessary attention, not to gratify it in other ways. And to learn to hold it is, in a very precise sense, the heart of the dramatic problem. For unless the audience is held...
...Annum, inspired by the music of late-16th-century Madrigalist Don Carlo Gesualdo, who has long fascinated Stravinsky (Gesualdo had his wife and her lover murdered and is said to have suffocated one of his own children before relieving his tensions in song). In 1956 Stravinsky set himself the task of "recomposing" three Gesualdo madrigals for orchestra. The results added up to little more than deft exercises in Stravinskian orchestration, but the audience warmly applauded the ailing, 78-year-old composer (he was carried up and down stairs in a sedan chair...