Word: broodingness
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Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon). In the case of the "New World" Symphony, familiarity has bred lack of imagination: conductors tend to blast through the great crescendos and wallow in the well-known themes. Not Giulini, however, whose...
Solzhenitsyn's novels reflect the intense brooding sadness of the Russian people, expressed through events similar to those of his own life. His eight-year stay in Stalinist labor camps, as well as his recovery from cancer, clearly contributed to the characterizations and intense emotional power of Cancer Ward, The...
But we must not think that the makers of this film intend merely to wow us with gaudy excess. No, no, no. They have soul. Quinn is discovered brooding sadly over his wife's beauty. Why does it make him gloomy? Because, he says, all beautiful things must eventually...
What is especially likable about the film is that Claude (Alain Cohen) is neither haunted nor hypersensitive, as teen agers customarily are in memoirs. He is a fairly good sort. His father, lost in the swamp of his mid-40s, can't quite figure out what's wrong...
THERE IS an atmosphere of quiet history in the Faculty Room. Located at the guarded heart of University Hall, the room is where the Faculty usually meets, under the watchful eyes of portraits and busts, the brooding eyes of men out of the University's past, who are preserved forever...