Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film is also daring in its confrontation of the subject of the European post-war mentality. Takes, the veteran of the Resistance who is always reliving the war and "would do it all over again tomorrow, if [he] had to," stands as a foil for Anton, who denies his past and buries his guilt. Over the years, Anton's suppressed feelings put him under increased strain, which manifests itself physically as seizures and toothaches...
Even though the film is two and a half hours long and spans forty years, The Assault is actually a short epic, concerned with the destiny of the post-war European soul. There is not a gratuitous scene or extraneous line of dialogue in it. Director Fons Rademakers is meticulous yet never plodding. The Assault is a film of obvious artifice, yet it is rarely didactic and always powerful...
...book is named after an Italian-born conductor, and it brings a staggering amount of research to bear on the career of Arturo Toscanini, the classical music cult figure who, after his adoption by America, became a symbol of the supposed parity between American and European culture...
Late in the century the flood of European immigrants for the first time brought the standard orchestral and instrumental repertoire to American ears. When Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler came to New York to head the Metropolitan Opera, he found a musical public "in contrast to 'our people' in Vienna...-- unsophisticated, hungry for novelty, and in the highest degree eager to learn...
After Toscanini had more than proved his genius as leader of the New York Philharmonic in the 1930s, NBC radio hired him, formed an orchestra for him, and launched a media blitz that celebrated the maestro as the foremost conductor of the European music...