Word: barbariane
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...soprano; Elly Ameling, soprano; Annelies Burmeister, contralto;. Berlin Chamber Orchestra, Vittorio Negri, conductor. 3 LPs; Philips; $23.94). Vivaldi composed his 1716 oratorio for his students at the Ospedale della Pietá. the Venetian orphanage where he taught music. The subject was a bloody one for schoolgirls: after beguiling the barbarian commander with words and wine, Judith seizes his sword and chops off his head. The score is sumptuous, propelled by the Baroque master's typical unflagging vitality. In this recording both male and female solo roles are sung by women. In the part of the servant Abra, the ease...
Trying to assign the blame in the New York bankruptcy is as much fun and as much use as deciding why the Roman Empire fell. Washington politicians tend to the sin-and-decadence theory, New Yorkers to the barbarian hypothesis. Let the historians decide. In the meantime--between, that is, now and December 1--city, state and federal officials should get busy making sure that the coming default does not set off financial panic or throw the country back into another recession. Everyone in New York, from Chase Manhattan to rookie sanitation men must be prepared to make some sacrifices...
Armenia, Arlen notes, was a small nation placed by God and geography on the outskirts of the world's great central empires. Rising from the Human and Hittite tribes of the Euphrates, the Armenians enjoyed a brief spring as soldiers and artisans, then sank into the shadows of barbarian tribes and civilized conquerors from Darius the Great to the Young Turks of this century. The Armenians had made two crucial wagers: on Christianity and the growing power of Europe. But the gamblers, observes their chronicler, "had been in the wrong part of the world to make these bets...
...peoples ancient Greece called "barbarian," none were more formidable than the Scythians?the hairy, implacable nomads who ranged over the steppes of Central Asia and north of the Black Sea, in what is now Russia. Around 3200 B.C., on these grassy oceans, the horse was first tamed for riding, and the Scythians were the result of that profound change in man's mobility...
...wrote that essay, Orwell had become a man without a country. The physical destruction that had overwhelmed Europe and the verbal destruction that so threatened the medium of his thought induced in him the feeling that he was defending humanity from the onslaughts of a civilized society gone barbarian. "Politics and the English Language" was written by a humble man who wanted to keep language itself humble and accessible. He wanted English redeemed as a tool to aid in the task of rebuilding society on the humanistic foundation the War had undermined...