Word: atlantises
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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And, lo, in the sorry streets of the stricken city there was of a sudden great exultation and praise unto the Lord. Young men dreamed lusty dreams, while the elders spake of a day at hand when multitudes would flock from near and far to lavish shekels upon the once...
Why Dogon religious rituals contain information that is uncannily similar to astronomers' findings about Sirius is a genuine mystery. Like other writers who have attempted to explain the unknown from a preconceived position, Temple produces a dizzying patchwork of evidence that tends to support his theory, while adroitly skipping...
Confronted by a vision of hell, does one stand in silent reverence for suffering or praise the spirit that surmounted it? Last week a Dutch audience faced this dilemma at the première of an opera, The Emperor of Atlantis, which was written in a concentration camp by two...
The authors turned their nightmare world into a German gothic tale: the Emperor of Atlantis (Baritone Meinard Kraak) has declared a holy war on mankind. Death, overworked, goes on strike. With no one dying, the kingdom is about to burst, and the ruler has to make a deal with Death...
The Emperor of Atlantis resembles another expressionist work, Kurt Weill's Seven Deadly Sins, but it goes beyond Weill's elegant cynicism. The final chorale, describing death as part of life's "delight and woe," is sung to A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, while the orchestra...