Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MADAME DE POMPADOUR, by Nancy Mitford, saw the meeting of a lively writer and an ideal subject. A flashing, witty biography of the mistress of Louis XV that not only described the inane royal world of Versailles but made it plain that the French Revolution was inevitable...
...suggestive title and a penny-dreadful type of introduction, promising a shocking glimpse of marital infidelity, the movie is still much closer to Victor Hugo's original Ruy Blas than to a Mickey Spillane epic. For one thing, the characters are far more interested in the seventeenth century ideal of glory than in the "passion" currently popular in drugstore circles. Alto, most of them are too busy intriguing against each other to get worked up over a love affair--even if it does involve the Queen of Spain...
...Although the Russians only offer promises, a nation as wretched as India is likely to accept them," Mrs. Roosevelt said. Since no one can enter the Iron Curtain, America has a better opportunity to demonstrate the democratic ideal, she added...
...thus a politically useful counterweight to the Catholic Chancellor himself), a devoted follower of Adenauer, a passionate believer in European unity. Besides Gerstenmaier's qualifications for the speakership, Chancellor Adenauer also had a reason for wanting him kicked upstairs: as a passionate defender of EDC and its supranational ideal, Gerstenmaier might not be flexible enough to accomplish the horse-trading needed to get the Paris accords through the Foreign Affairs Committee...
...swirling action is a servant who turns revolution ary and finds his new power as bitter as his old servitude. The Italian libretto is full of mysterious letters, whispered warnings and preposterous melodramatics. Nevertheless, the opera does convey tremendous theatrical excitement and a sharp sense of the great revolutionary ideal that turned into vulgar tyranny. Particularly rousing in the Met's otherwise conventional staging: the trial scene, with a vicious mob of women in the courtroom bleachers demanding Chénier's blood...