Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM is Woody Allen's play in which he also stars as a young man with so many hang-ups that he makes his audience feel positively healthy...
...Boulez, and those desiring to create music with the least possible constraints, represented by Cage and Stockhausen. The latter reacted against the old ghosts of Kingsor and Vienna, Wagner and Schoenberg himself. The new principle was that the legitimacy of music flows simply from the auditor's effort to feel sheer sounds. Music is the sensitized constancy of the world's masses. To borrow a term from language studies, music is mimetic; it imitates life as it strives to express it. In the music of chance, the craft of composition refers more to the preparation of the listener than...
...feeling in the department is so close to even that we could get an accidental majority in a department meeting," Brown said, adding, "I didn't feel we could deal with this problem on the basis of an accidental majority...
...audience seemed to know exactly how to react (some women murmured confidentially to each other as if they were in a museum), but almost everyone looked pleased. There seemed to be something special about this almost completely female gathering. I got the feeling that all the women present were proud of Miss Bas-Cohain, perhaps because they identified with her as a woman. Among men, there's usually a competitive atmosphere, but that was absent here. Perhaps because they are still a minority group when it comes to having brilliant careers or even jobs, women feel something like the collective...
...Supposedly, because women quit when they have babies. They are not considered good investments. Many are not good investments, but partly because society doesn't except them to be. It's as if the majority of woman made a deal with society: I won't feel guilty if you won't feel guilty. In other words, women will put up with discrimination (and not make society feel guilty) as long as society doesn't put pressure on them to try to achieve more (and doesn't make them feel guilty for not trying...