Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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General della Rovere (Zebra-Gaumont; Continental) is a quickie that almost became a masterpiece. Shot, cut and canned in 33 days of cost-trimming, brain-fagging labor, it is by all odds the best picture made by Italy's Roberto Rossellini since Open City (1945) and Paisan (1946). It...
The American message, which was signed by 52 professors from Brandeis, Boston University, and M.I.T., as well as Harvard, particularly cited the measures taken against the signers of the manifesto by the French government. The government took action against those of the signers engaged in government educational and artistic enterprises...
The Collaborators. No excess of wives, girl friends, possessions or noise has ever seriously interfered with L. & L.'s work. The composer-librettist relationship can produce some extraordinary cases of love-hate, as in the case of Gilbert and Sullivan. Professionally, Lerner and Loewe are marvelously meshed, and Fritz even...
"With this opera," said Giuseppe Verdi, "my artistic career has begun." He was speaking of Nabucco, the opera about Nebuchadnezzar that set him at the age of 28 in the top rank of operatic composers. Rarely performed now, even in Italy, Nabucco made only a few brief appearances on the...
An "artistic impulse toward writing" combined with the architect's search for "some underlying unity of design" led Edgar Johnson into the field of literary biography. The path which took him into English was by no means straight, however, for when he graduated from Columbia in the class of '22...