Word: calms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ (Mezzo Janet Baker, Tenor Eric Tappy, Baritone Thomas Allen, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis conductor, Philips; 2 LPs). Just as he could roar thunderously in the Te Deum, so Berlioz could write with reverent calm in this exquisite tapestry on the early events in Jesus' life. The music is kept deliberately simple by a chamberistic use of the orchestra and frequent resort to medieval modes and other archaic devices. Yet how fresh, urgent and devoted the result, notably in the central section-The Flight into Egypt. Continuing his pioneering Berlioz cycle, Colin Davis...
...charming. They try hard, too hard, to compensate for their insecurity by posing as confident and self-assured. And because Harvard men are highly skilled socially, they largely succeed. But in the process, they scare the hell out of each other--each one is convinced that everyone else's calm front is real, and that only he is in fact unsure of himself. So, for reasons irrelevant to my sexuality, I was afraid to appear to other people--even other gay people--as unsophisticated and inexperienced...
...hazardous appetite for the dramatic, a way of demanding more and more, of propelling events with its own requirements for momentum. It can also, quite simply, falsify reality. Indeed it has frequently done so; film editors go for the fast and turbulent scene, even if everything is calm two feet out of camera range. Perhaps the Sadat trip was such effective the ater, because it was an event of enough inherent size and poignance to live up to TV's dramatic requirements without needing to be hoked...
...everybody have a quick snack (coffee, cheese and roast beef sandwiches) before settling down to talk. The President was asked if he were disturbed by the criticism of the trip throughout the Arab world. "Do I look worried?" he answered with a chuckle. "As you see, I am quite calm, quite happy. This is our custom in the Arab world. We agree on strategic issues, but maybe we don't agree on tactical issues...
...cheap nostalgia or self-righteous despair. Each page is keyed to a child's comprehension; each of the meticulous landscapes shows compassion as well as irony in the face of the familiar. A companion suite, The Changing City, shows the same process in an urban environment, from the calm, dignified arrangements of turn-of-the-century houses to the epoch of right-angle multiple housing and fast-food enterprises...