Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vehicle for Wieland Wagner's long-awaited U.S. debut, but when he died three months ago at 49, his production was entrusted to his assistant, Peter Lehmann. Still, symbolically, Wieland was there. And fittingly so, for symbolism was his stock in trade. Lohengrin was garbed in heroic gold, Elsa in innocent white, Telramund in malevolent black, Ortrud in sinister green. In the background were painted stylized designs of a madonna, a dove and a swan. The swan, unfortunately, looked more like a Boeing 707, but, said Lehmann, "I wouldn't dare change it, because that...
...Highlight of the company's new production of Macbeth last week was the performance of Welsh Soprano Gwyneth Jones. A tall, flame-haired import from London's Covent Garden, she was a marvelously malevolent partner for Baritone Mario Zanasi as Macbeth, repeatedly thrilled the audience with her heroic, ringing voice. Jones's appearance marked her U.S. debut, and is the latest in a long string of firsts for the Dallas Civic Opera. The company, in fact, like its older cousins in San Francisco and Chicago, has introduced so many topflight opera singers to the U.S.-among them...
Walt Disney, who has previously shown a not-altogether-punctilious concern with things Celtic (The Sword in the Stone), has now undertaken to preserve this heroic figure as he always preserves a heroic figure: by embalming it in marmalade. In the new movie, one of the great fighting Irishmen is transformed into a priggish Prince Valiant and his complex politico-military career made into the sort of primary-colored comic strip that parents consider safe and children consider dull...
...Leonidas Matsoukas, a beefy and ebullient Hellene who, like the author, is a member of Chicago's Greek-American community, locally known as the Bush. For a fee, Matsoukas counsels mortals on such mundane affairs as impotence, wrestling, enuresis and masturbation. He also speaks exclusively in the heroic style; everyone in the book does. "Some say you are dead, that all this is mask and charade," says Matsoukas, addressing God. "I will tell you what I think has happened. Heaven has become for you a shadowed cavern of emptiness and longing. Your glory has departed. Man have mercy...
Removing the Mire. Acclaimed by the populace, they encouraged one another at river crossings by recalling Mao's recent speedy swim in the Yangtze and reciting his heroic verse: "I care not that the wind blows and the waves beat; it is better than idly strolling in a courtyard...