Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friends had already decided he was a liar. At 21, he made his New York debut as a singer with Mitzi Green at the Copacabana. "An egotistical, untalented little amateur," said Dorothy Kilgallen, and Earl Wilson said, "I'll take Mitzi; to hell with Mel." Mel was so deeply stung that he remembers the quotes verbatim to this...
...movement, fast-slow-fast style that has persisted since Mozart. The work opens with two brooding, songful movements in which the adagio percolates a single theme, refining it in major and minor statements. The minor key takes over in the excited cross-rhythms of the rondo finale, where "all hell breaks loose," says Lees happily. Lees's music is devilishly hard to play. After performing it, Szeryng pronounced the concerto "the most difficult piece I've ever tackled...
Orson Welles, who wrote and directed the first film version of Kafka's masterpiece, has wisely declined to decide. He accepts every possible interpretation as a limb of the author's allegorical monster, as a circle of the Hell in whose image he imagined man is made. Into this pit, his cameras rolling like the eyes of Lucifer, Welles plunges with tartarean energy; and if he cannot quite get to the bottom of it all he nevertheless comes up with a film of infernal brilliance, perhaps the most exciting picture he has made since The Magnificent Ambersons...
...divine mission that he never bothered to sort out his ideas. Consequently, he was always contradicting himself without noticing it. He oscillated between extreme positions, never coming to rest at a practical one. Before the Civil War, he was an all-out pacifist; once it began, he was hell-bent on the destruction of the South. At a time when Utopian nostrums were the fad, Garrison fell for them all: religious perfectionism, phrenology, Graham bread (as a cure for neuroses), water cures, spiritualism...
...persons-four times the number that turned out for a lecture in December by Georgia's newly elected Governor, Carl Sanders, a moderate segregationist. Warren's serious talk on the relations between science and law ("Law has not kept abreast of science . . . A world without law is hell-bent for destruction with or without scientific discoveries") drew long applause at its end. There were no pickets, no boos, no threats...