Word: elegiacally
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...mood of his plays is traumatic loss, a vestigial memory of the expulsion from Eden. With elegiac melancholy, Beckett intones a Kyrie eleison without God. Godot is hope's requiem. The two tramps are waiting for Godot in vain. In Endgame, the lid is lifted on a character who is dying in an ashcan, and it is disclosed that "he's crying." "Then he's living," says another. The only sort of affirmation lies in Beckett's very act of communicating the darkness of his vision. As Eric Bentley puts it: "If one truly had lost...
PROKOFIEV: SYMPHONY NO. 6 (RCA Victor). The fourth album in the Boston Symphony's Prokofiev series is devoted to his next to last symphony, which commemorated the end of World War II. Written when Prokofiev was a semi-invalid, the sixth is largely elegiac, for "wounds that can't be healed." Erich Leinsdorf distinguishes subtly between each muted mood, first sorrowing, then celebrating with sober splendor, and kicking off the traces for a jaunty, jazzy finale...
...more accurate manuscripts than those available to the translators of the King James version. Thus his syntax and synonyms are often radically different from what is found in the King James, and he abandons many of its most hallowed images. Gone from Psalms 23, for example, is the elegiac "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me." A comparison with Ugaritic cognates, Dahood argues, proves that the Hebrew correctly demands a more prosy reading: "Even though I should walk in the midst of total darkness...
...minute documentary knit into a tragedy-the story of the Spanish people during the scarring years (1936-39) of the civil war. To make it, French Producer-Director Frédéric Rossif drew on English, French, Russian, German and U.S. newsreels, molding his material into an elegiac whole, a powerful work...
...POETRY AND POWER, edited by Erwin Glikes and Paul Schwaber. An anthology of poems - some elegiac, some angry -lamenting the death of John F. Kennedy...