Word: catharsise
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Catharsis. He would not be forgotten, but last week many Americans were still trying to sort out in their own minds what he would be remembered for. There was his youth-which seemed to have kindled in young people all over the world an almost personal sense of loss...
Vaughn Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis could have been received either as a magnificent catharsis or as an offensive, over-extended tear-jerker. The audience chose the cathartic interpretation, even though the members of the string orchestra did not end their chords together, did not play their...
In his senior year at Princeton in 1954, Daniel Seltzer, assistant professor of English, wrote a thesis that was nearly six hundred pages long (don't put that down as if I were proud of it"). Dealing with "royal themes--the characterization of moral ideas on the stage," the thesis...
Eager to embrace the past, the widow keeps only tenuous links to the here and now. Her apartment has become an antique shop in which everything is for sale. "Be careful with these dishes-they are sold," she warns her dinner guests. Every evening she compulsively gambles away all she...
The program, with extensive notes, tried to help a Western audience which stood in need of help; but who expects a miracle from program notes? "As always in Mohini Attam, the dance by its comment essentializes the story from the point when Dharmaraj, chief of the Pandavas, is tricked by...