Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music may sample Bomarzo, the hero of which is "sexually ambivalent and frustrated, ghost-ridden, and obsessed with death." One shudders to consider the effects of Mr. McLendon's taste on works such as Tristan und Isolde (premarital sex), Salome (fetishism and degeneracy) and Wozzeck (sadism and murder). "English records that deal with sex, sin and drugs" are what make the best popular music true, if controversial art, precisely because they deal with an imagery that is valid for youth today...
...Israel is on a war footing, outgoing dispatches are subject to censorship, but both Shenker and Forbath were delighted by the censors' light touch. "Every deletion was accompanied by a detailed, reasonable and slightly sorrowful explanation," reported Forbath. "They even offered literary advice or translations from Hebrew into English." Added Shenker: "On saying good night, one of the censors remarked, 'We enjoyed your file.' They are much more sensitive than most editors...
...helped found a kibbutz (Degania B) in a malaria swamp on the Sea of Galilee and was a delegate to the founding conference of Histadrut, Israel's powerful labor organization, which now controls some 47% of the economy. A congenial man who speaks six languages (Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Russian, English and French), he was a frequent shaliah (emissary) on fund-raising tours of Europe. When Hitler came to power, he spent three years in Berlin on a double mission: getting Jews out of Germany and smuggling arms to the underground Jewish army back home...
...marvelous to see all of you again," said the squat, very old cherub in his gently accented English. "I didn't think I would be here with you this time. But thank God we are together again, and we can make lovely music." With that, Pablo Casals, 90, gravely ill last winter after a prostate operation, put on his conductor's hat for the eleventh Casals Festival in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and made lovely music on opening night with another great cellist, Gregor Piatigorsky, 64, in their first public performance together in more than 30 years...
...crafty Jupiter and Jeanette Scovotti's vapid Eurydice-it was almost overshadowed by Zachary Solov's spirited, stylish choreography, brilliantly danced by New York City Ballet Stars Melissa Hayden and Jacques D'Amboise. With the help of Jack G. O'Brien's updated English libretto, the buffoonery as well as the bite struck a contemporary nerve: the god Mercury was decked out like the symbol of the telephone company, and Public Opinion drew a loud, if edgy, laugh with her reassurance that she was enforcing marital fidelity only onstage, not in the audience...