Word: tragedian
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...Burrows, riding a score by Guys and Dolls' Frank Loesser (Oct. 14). Man at the crossroads in Africa is the subject of Kwamina, with score and lyrics by Richard Adler (Damn Yankees) (Oct. 23). Jean-Paul Sartre's Kean, drawn from the life of igth century Tragedian Edmund Kean and set in London's Drury Lane Theater, becomes a musical starring Alfred Drake (Nov. 2). The Affairs of Anatol, Arthur Schnitzler's sweet-cynical, turn-of-the-century portrait of a world-weary Viennese Don Juan, inspires The Gay Life, with music and lyrics by Arthur...
...case of William Faulkner is more baffling, since those involuted, parenthesis-clogged sentences at times make the greatest tragedian of modern U.S. letters seem barely literate. For an artist of Faulkner's high purpose, the canebrake confusion of manner can only be deliberate-an esthetic and philosophic ruse to exclude reason from the genetic and historical workings of man's fate. Peter De Vries's brilliant parody takes account of this and gives fair warning to those who attempt to write Sartoris Resartus; it may be easy to fake the Spanish moss but not the tree...
...although it is good enough in both respects. What it mainly offers for the modern reader is a literate statement of philosophy which finds the middle ground between religious panacea and existentialist despair." This "middle ground" was explained as the fact that "J.B. forgives God. This is not the tragedian's agnosticism or the atheist's bland facility--MacLeish has added to the stature of man at the expense of God. If man can presume to forgive his maker, then his maker, although omnipotent, is no longer omniscient. MacLeish has humanized his God." Anyway, all theological niceties aside...
...third movie, Kind Hearts and Coronets, established him as a world figure, the most famous British zany since Sir Harry Lauder. Alec was not quite sure he liked it. Like most British actors, he looked on cinema as a lower art form.* Besides, he fancied himself rather as a tragedian than as a funnyface. But there it was. And when his cold, existential, matter-of-fact Hamlet ("He was acute and intelligent, but flow of soul he lacked") flopped in the West End the next year, that tied the ribbon on it. Alec went to work in earnest...
Blank Sense of Pain. Dreiser the secular tragedian lurched toward the apocalypse of revolution like a blind bear shambling to its cave. When he joined the Communist Party, he wrote William Z. Foster that it was the "logic of my life...