Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...searching" until his release in 1948 (he was never brought to trial). Kishi regards his prison term as the turning point in his life: "In Sugano, I learned to see men for the first time really stripped of convention and pretense. I began to get a new idea of human values. I was forced to the conclusion that the war had been futile from the start, and that I should have tried to stop it. I became convinced that Japan must never again be involved...
...dominated by a philosophical dialogue between Moses and Aaron; Moses only speaks his part-a sign that, unlike the, glib, singing Aaron, the word fails him. Schoenberg etches the contrast between the hard but true faith of Moses and Aaron's emotional, almost political search for a human god-figure...
...opera's climactic moment, Moses causes the golden calf to collapse onstage ("Be gone, you image of powerlessness"). In the third act (not performed in Zurich because Schoenberg never completed the music for it) he denounces Aaron for having used God as a means to human ends. Aaron dies and Moses gives his uncompromising message to his people: "In the desert you shall achieve the goal: unity with...
Citation: "You and the Louisville community demonstrated to this nation and the watching world that both persuasion and compliance with law are essential to the human relations of a democracy...
...great state." These thematic straws did not interfere with the brutal clash of character, and the clash is what made the TV play exciting. Against the seedy raffishness of a steamy Staten Island house and garish honkytonk. the actors caught all the color and dimension of the human beings Odets so acutely observed. As they talked, the idea gleamed that here was where TV Writer Paddy (Marty) Chayefsky first met many of the people he writes about...