Word: das
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coming presidential sweepstakes. Bedtime for Bonzo is the attraction, starring non other than the former governor of California. Ronald Reagan is a college professor who raises a chimpanzee as his own son (or maybe it's the other we around). Sure to become a classic if the Death Valley Das Kid makes it into the Oval Office. The Orson Welles Complex also offers a treat for mystery fans on Friday and Saturday with a Raymond Chandler double feature of Farewell, My Lovely and The Long Goodbye. go and compare Marlowes (Mitchum and Gould...
Wagner knew exactly what he was doing at Bayreuth. Heard in quick succession, Das Rheingold, Die Walkure and Siegfried have a staggering cumulative effect. By the tune one settles in for the 4½-hour finale, Die Götterdämmerung, the ear reverberates with leitmotivs; and Wagner's gods, earthlings, dwarfs and dragons seem familiar, necessary, among the mind's permanent emotional reference points. One gasps at the death of Siegfried, even if he is the sort who will take a drink from anybody. One worships Brünnhilde as the lover and idealist...
Well, it is all academic, since most of the words-in any language-cannot be heard over the orchestra anyway. That seems to be more a problem of bad interpretation than anything else. At last week's Das Rheingold in Seattle, recognizable English phrases-"Help me, sister" (Freia), "Back to the mines" (Alberich), "What, yield my ring?" (Wotan) -were few and far between. But by Die Walkure, diction and audience comprehension had picked up considerably. How does the composer himself feel? Almost everyone who has ever gone on record about the matter, including Wagner, Verdi and Puccini, speaks desperately...
...YEARS--except for one time, a crucial time because it couches the explanation George Vecsey gives for why this coal miner literally has a jar of moonshine in one hand and a copy of Das Kapital in the other. Vecsey had to get at this somehow, because Sizemore is no quintessential miner-mountaineer. Yet he is not freak show, either. How could this socialist grow out of these barren hills? It has something to do with being suddenly laid off for nine months during the fifties, having some time to think, and making a decision. The tragedy of Appalachia--which...
...policymakers in most of the countries in which they have served are capable enough themselves and thus not in need of much day-to-day advice. So team members find themselves participating more as scholars and researchers than as direct advisors. Also, the pressures of the protests against the DAS forced them to re-examine the ideological baggage behind their approach, they say. And this has produced advice that is more technical and specialized...