Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Debussy's music provides an iridescent veil which sensitizes each syllable and gesture of the poem. His music illuminates the music from behind. The recitative vocal line partakes of the elastic undulations of the French language in an effort to more naturalistically express character. As he writes, "The feelings of a character cannot be continually expressed in melody. Also, dramatic melody should be totally different from melody in general." Only in a few places, such as Melisande's song at the beginning of Act III and the love duet in Act IV, scene iv, does the melody become genuinely lyrical...
...Express reporters covered all the candidates, examined the antiwar sentiment and racial conflict that lay be hind the election. Working from his reporters' lengthy files, English knocked out a rough draft of half the book in New York before Election Day. He shifted to London for seven weeks of fevered final writing, much of the time locked in a room with his closest collaborator, Correspondent Richard Kilian. "We thought we were never going to finish," English says...
Occasional Disbelief. The Express book will be tough to top. Much of its appeal lies in the wonderment with which the British team views the way the U.S. governs itself and elects its officials. The U.S., "once the fastest-moving nation in the world," in 1968 was "like a champion sprinter trying to do the hundred-yard dash with a ball and chain around his ankle." They likened the failings of President Johnson to those of Harold Wilson. "Both had an almost messianic sense of their own importance. Both understood politics better than they understood principles, and both understood principles...
...fascinating interview with Senator Eugene McCarthy, the Express team quotes the Minnesota Democrat as having told Robert Kennedy before New Hampshire: "I think I have a chance. But I must have a clear run. You can have it all in 1972. But in return I want you to leave it to me in 1968." Bobby flatly promised to stay out, McCarthy told the British newsmen, and had he stuck to his word, "not only would he almost certainly be alive today but most probably he would have emerged as President of the United States...
Contemporary artists have found all kinds of ways to express a caustic...