Word: foolishness
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...Wagner. His greatest innovations came in the realm of orchestral color-ruddy brass canvases, fragile wood-wind-and-string pastels that give the Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, for example, such perpetual freshness and surprise. Today, when such qualities are so rare in our new music, it is foolish to scoff at Mendelssohn. In short, if the often windy and bombastic Liszt is entitled to a comeback, can Mendelssohn be far behind...
...POLICE GAZETTE Edited by Gene Smith and Jayne Barry Smith. 208 pages. Simon & Schuster. $12.50. A collection of articles and illustrations from the granddaddy of all schlock journalism. The Gazette, which began publication in 1846, was unequaled for its sensationalism ("The foolish son of Colonel Sumpter, a wealthy politician of Hot Springs, Ark., marries a member of the St. Louis, Mo., demi-monde") and bigotry ("Sheeny Abortionist Beast Trapped by Brave Beauty"). Yet it nevertheless recorded the rapacity, brutality and savage energy of the Gilded...
...Point. A student from outside nights approach, the military academy with a sound that it is full of programmed robots, mindlessly following orders in the inevitable march to fascism. One finds instead a group of individuals, most of them bright, friendly interesting, committed people. The system might still seem foolish, perhaps even evil, for what it does to the individuality and humanity of the Cadets. It still remains difficult to justify the rule of absolute silence for plebes in the Mess Hall, for example...
Neither good intention nor Prince's talented direction are enough to support the crushing weight of O'Neill's foolish aspirations. Instead of settling for good melodrama. O'Neill has dug up actors masks from their classical graveyard and with them hopes not only to represent his characters' divided souls but also to express the "mystery" that is the meaning of any event...
...almost foolish to consider Simon's lyrics apart from his music, since the drive of each enhances the expressiveness of the other, and the melodiousness of Simon's words complements the rhythm of his instrumental arrangements perfectly. Nevertheless, he does verbalize, independently of his music, both fantastic notions and commonplace sentiments with refreshing simplicity and without undue seriousness. For example, in "Don't Forget What I told You," he describes a certain ambivalence towards his lover...