Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HOLLYWOOD, where the ideal and the material merge as a magnificent ante bellum set in a deserted parking lot, should have been the real paradise for the Fitzgeralds in the 30s. But by 1937, Zelda had already spent seven years in a North Carolina sanitorium. And Scott, with their daughter about to enter Vassar, his agent unable to sell a single manuscript during the past year and his total earnings from all his books in print for the same time totaling $81.18, was convinced that his life was over...
Celine dove into politics after years of traveling and observing the seamier side of life, which alternately fascinated, disturbed and delighted him, and from which he gleaned material for his novels. Dance and dancers represented Celine's ideal of beauty, and McCarthy notes that this was, "ironically, fostered by the popular variety shows of wartime London." But his wandering in such milieus provided him with an even broader spectrum of sordid images: a savvy pimp initiated him into Soho's brothels; he was struck by the loneliness and humiliation of urban life in New York; the inhumanity of Detroit...
...common malady plagues the Houses these days: more people. Most sophomores and juniors have abandoned any hope of living in a suite without a person stuck in the living room. Harvard housing officials have jammed every House with students to reach a level they have dubbed "ideal capacity." Still, large discrepencies in the allocation of room space and the burden of crowding exist from House to House...
...enterprising museums. And even Mencken noted: "[In the South] some attention was also given to the art of living-that life got beyond and above the state of a mere infliction and became an exhilarating experience. A certain noble spaciousness was in the Southern scheme of things." That ideal has been translated into magnificent urban structures in Atlanta, Houston, Charlotte and smaller cities. Yet Southern urbanites are not captives of the city: they can swiftly dodge away to a country music festival, a fishing trip or an autumn dove shoot...
...Seville, probably because of its emphasis on bravura ensemble work over traditional solo arias. Further, the title role is written for an almost extinct species, the coloratura contralto. La Scala has such a rara avis in Lucia Valentini Terrani. She really has too hefty a look for an ideal Cinderella, but her voice was lusciously bronze and agile. The production is by France's Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; within a delightful children's cutout house, he manipulates his characters like a swinging Coppelius. How, for example, Soprano Margherita Guglielmi (Half Sister Clorinda) can make her hoopskirt behave like...