Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This was no affair for the likes of political dissidents or even government department teaching fellows. Deans Jackson and Graham Allison contended the demonstrators threatened the dignity of the opening ceremonies. The demonstrators may have disrupted the gratuitous pomp and circumstance, but how can political expression interfere with the teaching of responsive public service...
...like to dress fancy and have a good time--even children enjoy playing house and wearing crowns. It is that the ideologies of these liberal Kennedys, Galbraiths, student politicos and journalists stand in bleak contrast to their elitist lifestyles and pretensions. How will Americans view a lavish black-tie affair to open a school of public service...
...most original of 20th century composers. His bristly textures seem attuned to the turmoil of modern life; his fascination with the melodic patterns of speech, bird calls and animal cries appeals to contemporary music's interest in sounds. Janáček's chilling opera, The Makropoulos Affair, about a glamorous woman cursed with a 300-year life span, has recently been performed in San Francisco and at the New York City Opera. The Metropolitan Opera and Santa Fe have also staged major Janáček productions...
...Then he fell madly in love with Kamilla Stoesslova, the pretty young wife of an antique dealer. Although the composer always contended that their love was platonic, hundreds of steamy letters, discreetly tucked away in the local Janáček Museum, seem to belie his claim. The affair inspired a unique musical outburst. By the time he died at age 74 (some say while pursuing a woman through a nearby woods), Janáček had written four blazingly original operas, orchestral pieces and chamber music and the immense, superbly spiky Glagolitic Mass, a pantheistic hymn...
...orchestras, offered a smoothed-out, spruced-up version of the composer's music, while the more regional Brno orchestra left the burr in Janáček's rough edges. Lacking singers of international caliber, the Brno ensemble fared poorly in such star vehicles as The Makropoulos Affair. But Mr. Brouček was a crowd favorite, both because of the sensuous, tuneful music and the lavish production mounted in the 1,400-seat, ultramodern Janáček Theater...