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An obituary for professor Lionel Trilling is presented.

The article reviews the theatrical production "Travesties," by Tom Stoppard, directed by Peter Wood and starring John Wood, James Booth, and Tim Curry.

The article reviews the film "Finnegans Wake," starring Martin J. Kelley and Jane Reilly, directed by Mary Ellen Bute.

The article reviews the film "Ulysses," starring Maurice Roeves, Milo O'Shea, and Barbara Jefford, directed by Joseph Strick.

A preview of several television programs and other entertainment sources is presented including "Sex in the Sixties," featuring Dr. William H. Masters, "The Island Called Ellis," featuring Jose Ferrer and "At the Drop of Another Hat," featuring Michael Flanders.

The article reviews the film "La Collectionneuse," starring Patrick Bauchau and Haydee Politoff, directed by Eric Rohmer.

The article focuses on the selection of novelist John Updike as the cover subject of the magazine "Time" in October 1982 in the U.S. Updike valued his privacy, but when the magazine approached him, he did not refuse to be interviewed in depth. Paul Gray, the author of the cover story on Updike, claimed that the course of the novelist's career was hardly determined by the success or failure of one work.

The article focuses on the centennial celebration for author James Joyce birthday on February 2, 1882. in Dublin, Ireland. It states that the event was attended by President of Ireland Patrick Hillery and the mayor of Dublin Alexis Fritzgerald to initiate the official ceremonies. Furthermore, it notes that most of Joyce fellow Dubliners would neither understand what he hoped to comment nor assume his increasing defiance towards Roman Catholicism.

The article offers brief profiles of Paul Gray and Sara Medina, who contributed to the writing of the journal.

The article reviews the play "Clarence," directed by Gene Feist and starring Stephen Keep and Marian Clarke, performed at the Roundabout Theater Co. in Manhattan, New York.

The article reviews the musical production "Odyssey," by Mitch Leigh, performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

The article reviews the play "Ulysses in Nighttown," adapted by Marjorie Barkentin, starring Zero Mostel, Fionnuala Flanagan, and Tom Lee Jones.

The article presents information on the radio show titled "Frankly Esoteric." Bernice Judis, manager of the WNEW radio station, started the show in October 1952. It notes that the show, which offers noncommercial items such as Gertrude Stein's "The Making of Americans" and a harp solo by Nicanor Zabaleta, is being described as the last word in avant-garde art. A percussion orchestra from the Juilliard School, folk tales from Indonesia and Ethiopian devotional chants are among the future shows to be aired in WNEW.

A list of television and radio programs in the U.S. for the week starting February 29, 1952 is presented, which includes the "Martin & Lewis Show," "Metropolitan Opera" and "Today" with Dave Garroway.

The article discusses the criticisms and debates that were made on the pages of the paper "London Observer" in Great Britain concerning poetry. Critic Ivor Brown criticized the novel "Ulysses," by James Joyce and the so-called Joycean obscurantists. Philip Toynbee criticized poet Edith Sitwell for her use of the phrase "Emily-colored hands." The opinion of schoolmistress Josephine Malone on the phrase is also cited.

The article focuses on Samuel Beckett who is named as Oblomov by Peggy Guggenheim. It says that the Irish novelist has matured from his own experience of frustration and has received the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 63. It features Beckett's work including "Krapp's Last Tape," "Endgame," and "Malone Dies," which is considered a plaintive novel. It mentions that man and his humanity is the focus of Beckett's work. James Joyce, Beckett's mentor, says that writing is a priestly vocation.

The article offers information on the 1967 Cannes Film Festival in which one of the contenders was the British-made film "Ulysses". It mentions that during the film screening of the festival, "Ulysses" director Joseph Strick noticed that 20 lines of Molly Bloom's famous soliloquy had been deleted of the subtitles. Strick spoke with the festival director Robert Favre Le Bret regarding the mutilation and decided to withdraw his film from the competition.

The article offers updates related to motion pictures productions in the U.S. Producer Jerry Wald has planned to film the adventure movie "Ulysses,' by screenplay writer James Joyce. Meanwhile, writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz reveals that his film version of "Cleopatra," starring Elizabeth Taylor, would be substantially different from the play "Caesar and Cleopatra," written by Bernard Shaw.

The article profiles Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola. He was introduced to music in 1924 with the premier of Arnold Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire." He studied the twelve-tone technique, then premiered his first opera, "Night Flight," in 1940. His 13-minute "Variations for Orchestra" was heard in Manhattan, New York City performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Erich Leinsdorf.

The article announces the creation of the Irving Babbitt Professorship of Comparative Literature in honor of philosopher Irving Babbitt at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It states that the chair, to be occupied by critic Harry Levin, was proposed by Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey, and supported by T. S. Eliot and Walter Lippmann. It also discusses the opposition of Babbitt to class struggle and sentimentalism which irritated both the liberals and conservatives in his era.

The article reviews the play "The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin," by Robert Wilson, performed at the Academy of Music in New York City.

The article reviews the revival of the theatrical production "Ghosts," written by Henrik Ibsen, performed at the Roundabout Theater in New York.

The article focuses on the trend in incomprehensible literature in the U.S. in 1923. A case in point is the book "Ulysses," by James Joyce. Also noted is the awarding of the Dial prize for the best poem in 1922 to the opus "The Waste Land," by T. S. Eliot. According to Eliot supporters, the poem is a literature concerned with results instead of intention.