Word: amalgams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plays of the young Brecht are, essentially, an amalgam and a derivation. Not that the savagery and sharpness (or their intent) were borrowed: the rapacious soldiers and leering camp followers of A Man's a Man could not have been conceived by anyone else; yet they do most obviously have a model, the Kipling of "O, it's Tommy this an' Tommy that . . ." So too their spineless victim-- only he is patterned after, not Kipling, but Jaroslav Hasek's Adventures of the Good Soldier Schweik--a book Brecht thought one of the "three literary works of this century which . . . will...
...Trovatore, Aïda, Cio-Cio-San in Butterfly, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Liu in Turandot. Her Leonora proved to be a remarkable portrayal of a woman in whom dignity struggled with desperation and in whom grief somehow shone more movingly through a profound sense of repose. The amalgam of qualities made her fourth act aria D'amor sull'ali rosee a dramatic as well as a technical triumph. It was perhaps the most wildly applauded moment of the present Met season-a season made somewhat lackluster by several dull, slack productions but rendered memorable by what...
...Section Man has been extraordinary, based partly upon Queensly's delicate handling of a controversial subject matter and partly upon his choice of locale. Leslie Fiedler has said, "...the confrontation of Cambridge's Fall into Death and Spring into Love leaves us its startling residue of thunderous denial, the amalgam of Huck and his raft separated by Thomas Moore's "Lolly Rookh" from the black pristine love found in the shoals of the frozen Charles!" Diana Trilling writes, "...disconcerted by the misconception of the tragic hero (ine?) and...foundering in the slough of my husband's anguish, I found...
...once a new work by Berlioz became an overnight success. ("Come, dears," wrote a society columnist. "You will hear wonderful things.") But there were grumblings even then that Romeo and Juliet was a curious hybrid-neither symphony nor oratorio nor opera. What Berlioz was aiming for was a new amalgam of symphony and opera in which vocal solos, choral and instrumental passages were mixed in loosely linked episodes. In Berlioz' musical shorthand, some moments of highest passion-the passages between Romeo and Juliet-are left to the orchestra alone because it offered "a richer, more varied, less limited language...
...irrevocably, to a wretched fellow human whose claim is based subtly on weakness. Author Matthiessen has successfully brought off something more than a war novel. The reader cannot avoid thinking of all the Raditzers he ever knew; he may even dwell uneasily, however briefly, on the Raditzer-Charlie Stark amalgam in himself...