Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even in the ceremonial and defiantly mechanistic process of death, Groius left those who followed him with a purpose, or perhaps, more precisely, a sentiment, an emotion. And more importantly, he left them its appropriate form...
...image that lingers along with the name Walter Gropius will be a measure of a personality. It is probably Gropius' greatest achievement that that personality survived the smothering mechanisms of institutions and societies while he lived. And, as his Festival demonstrated, it is not to end with his death...
...worst moments seem to fascinate Poland's avant-garde composer Krzysztof Penderecki. In his Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, Dies Irae (an oratorio in memory of the dead of Auschwitz) and The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ According to St. Luke, Penderecki treated mass annihilation and murder with moving intensity, stretching the limits of orchestral and vocal range so far that he had to invent new notational symbols for his score (TIME, Oct. 14, 1966). Thus it was only appropriate that for his first opera he chose as his subject a tale of mass hysteria and political...
...mistresses of Niccolo d'Este, the Marquis of Ferrara (one cannot help wondering who counted them); the 2,000 oxen and 80,000 fowl reportedly consumed at the two-week wedding feast for Niccolo's son Leonello and Maria of Aragon; the 200 souls trampled to death in a traffic jam on Rome's Sant' Angelo bridge during the 1450 jubilee celebration...
...emerge, almost subliminally, as the book's most understandable human beings. Lucrezia Borgia, unjustly slandered as a poisoner and profligate, seems much to be pitied -a woman who may have had a lover or two but who gave her third husband at least seven children before her death at 39. Only a few women railed at their fate. Beatrice d'Este Sforza, pregnant and angered at her husband's open infidelity with one of her own ladies-in-waiting, reacted drastically. She gave a party one afternoon and danced recklessly. That night, as if she had intended...