Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inspiration was five poems by young Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko (TIME cover, April 13). Less a symphony than a symphonic cantata, the work evolves in a five-movement cycle, alternating choral recitations with interpretive orchestral comments, building in emotional power until it returns on the wings of ardor to the theme that set it going...
...time Perkins gets to Greece, Mercouri is desperate. His ardor for her has cooled; he feels she has tricked him into coming to visit his father; she can no longer bear for Vallone to touch her. She watches as Perkins' affection for his father grows, shutting her out of their lives. Lurking always in the background is the sinister figure of her maid, a mannish mystic possessing an unnatural affection for her mistress. The maid warns Mercouri: "Put that boy out of your heart or everything will fall...
Serge Koussevitzky played on the Boston with Slavic ardor, kindling it to its best efforts in Russian works or in the epic grandeurs of Beethoven and Sibelius. Charles Munch tuned its voice to the French composers, infusing it with a certain Gallic grace. Leinsdorf, 50, is Viennese-born but internationally bred, and he will presumably make the Boston speak a more international tongue-well-modulated, clear and precise. Although a great orchestra does not change its accent overnight, the Boston played with wonderful clarity and precision last week, responding to Leinsdorf's tick-tock beat with hair-trigger reflexes...
Simple Morality. Such ardor is not limited to Germany. Though Frenchmen insist that Germans are Europe's real cowboy fanatiques, the French still log many hours watching The Lone Ranger on television, and they are used to seeing their children hurry home from school to catch L'Aigle Noir (Black Eagle) Thursday afternoons. For serious children, French television is offering a new series: Véritable Histoire du Far West...
...seen by the prophet Ezekiel. The Princes of the Church, he said, are men who "move around the throne of the most highest, who have no concern except for his glory, except to carry forward his fiery chariot, who when they touch the earth transform it with the ardor of their charity...