Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amazing thing about On Moral Fiction is that, despite the naivete of its fundamental tenet, it is filled with acute, valuable observations on contemporary art. Gardner's ideas make a lot more sense when he applies them to contemporary culture than when he states them in the abstract...
...Love" is of course another of those embarrassing words, perhaps a word more embarrassing even than "morality"... It has, nonetheless, a firm, hard-headed sense that names the single quality without which true art cannot exist... We read or listen to or look at works of art in the hope of experiencing our highest, most selfless emotion, either to reach a sublime communication with the maker of the work, sharing his affirmations as common lovers do, or to find, in works of literature, characters we love as we do real people...
...such a rigidly structured environment that Vilayat Khan learned his art. The sixth generation of a family of celebrated musicians, he was born in 1924 in the town of Gouripur, located in Bangladesh. He gave his first concert at the age of seven, and made his first recording in his early teens. His reputation now is equivalent to that of Pablo Casals in the West...
Khan vehemently opposes the various gurus and Indian musicians who come to the U.S. to commercially package their cults and art. His normally soft voice rises indignantly at the idea that they misrepresent Hindy culture in America. He sees Americans as too innocent; in their desire to find spiritual fulfillment in an alienating society, they are susceptible to movements such as the Hare Krishnas and Guru Maharaji...
...Khan might have about the Indian state of affairs, he does not intend to leave the country. It is understandable why he feels that way. In spite of its swelling poverty and destitution and its unstable political situation, India is the only place where he could best develop his art. Everywhere are indications of ancient religions and the traditions. Sacred cows walk the streets, shrines are at the feet of Bombay streetlamps, most homes have puja (worship) rooms and an idol of the household deity. People are named after characters in the Vedic scriptures...