Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...composers dating before World War II and usually concentrates on the baroque, classical and early romantic eras? The answer is to search for the occasional performance of contemporary works which find their proper milieu in our own twentieth century, instead of evoking the Europe or America of the eighteenth...
Otherwise, for the Crimson, Noel Scidmore and Peter Fitzsimmons turned in particularly noteworthy performances as they finished eighteenth and twentyfourth. Scidmore ran yesterday for the first time since recovering from a bout with viral pneumonia and Fitzsimmons, all-Ivy as a freshman and sophomore, competed for the first time in 1977, a year in which he has been sidelined with tendonitis...
Here is Darwin's searing still-life portrait of Bobby Jones playing out the eighteenth hole of St. Andrews...
Director Joseph Wilkins, rumored to be assuming a new name after the show closes, has chosen to do Richard Wilbur's poetic translation in a twentieth century setting. The light, witty eighteenth century elegance of Wilbur's heroic couplets is totally out of place and soon becomes tiresome droning. Add to this a genuinely ugly set that is half a caricature of art deco and half a clumsy imitation of seventies Manhattan townhouse elegance. Pile on costumes that range from late Victorian decadent fopperty to Gatsby-esque knickers and then to late sixties hippy uniforms. This confusion...
...imagery deludes many Westerners into viewing the East as lush, exotic, and unique. On the ferry from Algeciras to Tangier it's easy to become engrossed admiring the approaching scenery and to ignore one's fellow passengers--dispirited, unromantic, impoverished North African laborers. It's tempting to affect an eighteenth-century gentleman merchant's self-esteem when brought mint tea and invited to inspect carpets and bolts of silk in a Moroccan bazaar. But the rotting garbage in the streets is probably more typical of the real East. And to queries about the nature of those mysterious blue crystals...