Word: bastardize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gunther Schuller and John Lewis have somewhat naively tried to incorporate both jazz and overtly classical music either horizontally or vertically in the same work. The cool reception of the jazz world at large is certainly indicative, but instead of passing off these bastard creations dogmatically you might do well to listen to Conversation on Atlantic 1345. There you will find a few minutes of excellent string quartet writing followed by a few minutes of excellent jazz quartet blowing. But as a general direction for future jazz to take, I think that the efforts of these two men will...
Yesenin-Volpin's pessimism and rebelliousness come naturally. His father, the great Russian village poet, Sergei Yesenin, was an ardent early Bolshevik, whose increasing disillusion with Communism was accompanied by a marriage to Dancer Isadora Duncan and a slide into alcoholic and narcotic torpor. His bastard son, Aleksandr Sergeyevich, was the result of a liaison with a Russian writer-translator, Nadezhda Volpin. Shortly after his son's birth, Yesenin slashed his wrists in a Leningrad hotel, wrote his last poem in his blood, then hanged himself...
...this messy little political parable the problem of ambition is curiously misconceived. The hero is described by one colleague as a "grasping and self-important bastard," but he seems no more ambitious than the next man in politics -or indeed in any other career requiring get up and ego. In the script, a man's legitimate ambitions are primly restricted: according to his colleagues, he must do whatever the majority decides is right, and according to the woman he loves, he must subordinate his career to "a life built around his children." In plain English, the moviemakers are saying...
...time testified that Huyghe later boasted of how Lumumba's two fellow prisoners were shot as they knelt to pray. Then Huyghe waited for Patrice himself to enter the room. Testified the Briton: "When Lumumba walked in, he started screaming and crying for his life . . . 'Pray, you bastard,' said Huyghe. 'You had no pity on women or children or nuns of your own faith, so pray!'" At this, goes the testimony, Lumumba fell to the floor, started rolling and screaming for mercy, and Huyghe then shot...
...merit of originality. The baby catches fire-no kidding, the dear little fellow really catches fire and blazes away on the screen for quite a while. But somehow, after two hours of watching the trouble he's made, it's hard to be sorry for the little bastard...