Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sales Pitch. Even where the product was not readily identifiable, salesmen were hard at work as dramatic show after dramatic show peddled the quintessential goodness of man in one well-contrived happy ending after another. On the TV Reader's Digest, a lantern-jawed angel of goodwill named Charlie Faust did for the New York Giants what only Satan could accomplish for the Washington Senators in the Broadway musicomedy Damn Yankees. On Chrysler's Climax!, Betty Furness and Franchot Tone went to the trouble of killing off an expendable playboy on the operating table to bring understanding back...
...everything. The Flaming Angel was set in medieval Germany, where witchcraft and inquisitions were the leading pastimes. The heroine was a virgin with visions who turned her search for sainthood into earthly passions before she was finally burned at the stake. Even better was the music, which Prokofiev himself declared "my greatest." But all this was not good enough; despite the efforts of such famed conductors as Bruno Walter and Serge Koussevitzky, no opera house was willing to stage the gigantic work. Prokofiev despaired of ever getting it produced-to the extent of lifting his Third Symphony almost entirely from...
...shows the child Mary installed as a handmaiden in the temple as a thanksgiving offering by her parents. According to the Apocryphal Book of James: "And Mary was in the temple of the Lord as a dove that is nurtured; and she received food from the hand of an angel." To portray Mary the artist used gentle modulations of beige, blue and gold, which achieve the soft tones of tempera painting. Little effort was made to indicate perspective, but the turning movement of the figures, the flowing robes of Mary and her handmaiden and the swirling movement of the angel...
...Music-Appreciation Records. All of them have had the same disadvantages: no regular big-name performers and merely average sound quality. Nonetheless, they operate at a tidy profit, and some are trying hard to improve their wares, e.g., the Book-of-the-Month Club has begun releasing topnotch Angel disks, such as Debussy's La Mer, and has made a deal with New York's Metropolitan Opera for Met cast recordings. Last week Columbia Records, one of the biggest major labels, lowered itself into the mail-order maelstrom, announced its own record club with a million-dollar advertising...
...order of our lives and may involve our very lives; and these events are occurring persistently with increasing omen, in what may be called our presence." In this situation, what is the poet's role? To cherish imagination not as escape from reality but as "the necessary angel" by whose shaping grace man's need to make sense of reality is fulfilled. Nobility must be expressed, wrote Wallace Stevens, because of a violence from within "that protects us from a violence without. It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality...