Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Knussen is only 15. He began his First Symphony just before his 14th birthday and finished it six months later. What impressed the public, critics and professionals alike was the symphony's bold self-assurance, its thoroughly contemporary sound and free use of serial techniques, its lack of conscious imitation-even though it does contain a few friendly pokes at Mahler and Messiaen, "who," says the youngster, "use the cymbal, bass and drum in a vulgar...
...reforms were moving so fast that at week's end the party felt obliged to sound a note of caution. Conscious of the apprehension of the Soviet Union and other Communist neighbors, the Central Committee passed a resolution warning of the dangers of two extremes. On the one hand, the resolution declared the party's firm intention of preventing a return to the era before Dubček's takeover; on the other, it cautioned the people against trying to go back to the days before Communism...
...legitimate comedy from the corrosive camaraderie of Steiger and Segal in their hare-and-hound relationship. Not that the film is totally successful. Eileen Heckart, as Segal's mom, aims at Kosher salami but comes out Irish ham. And the end, heavy with Christian expiation, is as self-conscious as a Sunday-school morality play...
...COLD BLOOD. Capote's nonfiction novel has, in the hands of Director Richard Brooks, become a first-rate movie although it suffers, ironically, from self-conscious filmishness...
...Babe's substitution of a loudspeaker for the proverbial Shakespearian messenger: when a panicstricken Rome first hears that Coriolanus may be allied with the Volscians, Babe stages a fast dialogue between Menenius, the tribunes, and the loud speaker, eerie in the momentary illusion that the loud speaker is quite conscious of what the other three are saying. The use of film and speaker projection proves Babe's most successful instinct in Coriolanus and the device most fully resolved; the harrowing ending is played simultaneously on stage and film; Babe requires a dual concentration from the audience for the first time...