Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WOLFGANG Amadeus Mozart is history's most famous child prodigy. A virtuoso clavierist and a more than competent organist and violinist as well, he was equally boggling as performer, improviser, and composer. He fashioned his first minuets at the age of six, his first symphony approaching nine, his first oratorio at eleven, and his first opera at twelve...
...Genet have abandoned admonitory Ibsenite finger-waving for a nerve-shattering look into the abyss of existence itself, which in their view is stingingly futile, innately unjust and thoroughly absurd. In the future it may be said that they held a broken mirror up to the nature of the age, but for now they have rendered Miller obsolete by altering the central focus of theater from sociology to metaphysics...
...soul to soul. Whenever the theater is weak, it is because man is denying man and shielding his feeblest self from the pain, power, majesty and glory of existence. But this is the only language that great drama ever spoke, and will again speak in a great theatrical age...
Fiction as Artifice. There are other such feints in the novel, including a jarring and inexplicable projection of Franz into a diseased old age, and a lunatic landlord who constantly threatens to break up the game but never does. But in the end, it is the author's stylized and intentionally visible hand that collects all bets. Martha succumbs meekly to pneumonia. Franz, relieved of his responsibilities as stud and killer, leaps into madness. Dreyer continues good-naturedly to misread all signs...
...struggle for liberalization, in essence, is just another manifestation of the age-old conflict between two opposed mentalities; to speak very broadly, those of the "Bureaucrat" and the "Intellectual." The Bureaucrat is stolid, excessively rationalistic and cautious about accepting change. This is no accident, as administrative structures tend to select precisely such men for their top posts, weeding out those who do not fit the pattern. The Bureaucrat is therefore most at home in a politically repressive system, in which his power is least questioned. The Intellectual, on the other hand, is primarily concerned with unfettered human expression in both...