... rather than merely gazed at and beaten down by giving it a domestic name. Re member that a name tames a thing. Why else do we speak of nameless wonders and hor rors? Just those things we cannot grasp. A picture that gives rise to a great number of personal ...

... the innate ability of most artists to transform and enhance their immediate sur roundings. At least one social scientist, speaking about town planning and development on the radio, suggested that any progressive developer with his eye on a drab urban area ...

... from 1934-35, Jeanne D'Arc is unusual in having both leading roles -Joan and her guiding spirit, Brother Dominic written for speak ing voices. It is also one of those dramatic works, like Damnation of Faust and Oedipus Rex, that can be pre sented either ...

... be taking sharper interest. The reasons for this are deep and rather in. For a start, The Informer is the first series to speak for Cyril Ben nett, Rediffusion's new Direc tor of Programmes. Other pro jects were in the pipeline, or at least being mooted ...

... houses, the Proms, and a ceaseless parade of visiting and fringe events. Foreign ers are not merely flattering when they speak of the musical capital of the world. Next week the Festival con dition becomes official, with the third City of London Festival ...

... title, in that the extremely varied works on view are indeed poetic images, but also con tains some rare and artis tically speaking historically significant things, such as Chirico's Les Archeologues of 1925 and Bacon's 1950 Frag ment for a Crucifixion ...

... paper and paste with astonishing energy and artistic simplicity. This work, made a year earlier than the Tate's L'Escargot, speaks in a directly modern language, but with the traditional spirit of joyous, sensual, pastoral evocation that informed the great ...

... box office potential enough. But no. The makers have to have special appearances by John Wayne as a four-star general, speaking in a gravel drawl against a background of the American flag, and Frank Sinatra, as a cocky American pilot who gives his life ...

... admirers. Though Verdi's operatic treatment of the Messa da Requiem is now accepted as an expression of true faith--a man speaking in the language he knows, and thus being completely true to himself--there are still a number of people who find the nervous ...

... special. The ex pected arguments happen public and private morality; compromise or action etc. The characters all seem to speak long, perfectly constructed paragraphs, all commas show ing. Peter Copley and Ian McCulloch are defeated by the prose, and ...

... expect nor particularly want to. When the curtain rose on Das Rheingold at Covent Garden this week, a largely non- German-speaking public were committed to 16 hours of Teutonic philosophising in the original tongue, and an annual ritual which raises, in ...

... undeveloped, uncon trolled and untrained. She is also lumbered with a chubby Florizel whose ardency lies only in the words he speaks. Jim Dale, a most engaging character, plays Autolycus as a sort of music-hall link be tween audience and stage. Fair enough ...