Word: didacticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This new biography by Hildesheim, an esteemed Mozartian, was widely acclaimed on its publication in Germany five years ago. Written in a fresh, distinctive style, this account refutes much previous speculation about the great composer's life and music, replacing it with scholarship and practical judgement. Much of the enjoyment...
For all their vaunted coolness of acting technique, the British seem to demand that their plays make heated arguments. The enemy may be imperialism, fascism, racism, even male chauvinism or the belabored-to-death class system, but an enemy there must be. Americans often make a hash of British plays...
"Nobody buys municipal bonds out of love for financing the home-town sewer system," says Lebenthal, 54. Instead, in an ever changing series of advertisements that all carry the same message, he drives home the lesson that municipal bonds can pay hefty returns to people who earn $50,000 a...
That may be too lofty a plane on which to place Foxfire. If so, it is an error on the side of the angels. What is being struck on the stage of Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theater is the rarely heard chord of all-embracing humanity. This play quivers...
Chasing the ineffable can make gymnastic philosophy and entertaining drama, but Hildesheimer's pursuit is a didactic lust for lifelessness. Having cleansed Mozart of the cliches of romanticism and Victorian propriety, he spills the cliches of existentialism and psychoanalysis. There are speculations on the speculative and a dozen ways...