Word: ideality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WAGNER: PARSIFAL (Philips; 5 LPs). This first stereo version has top credentials: conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch, an eminent Wagnerian, it was recorded at Bayreuth, where Wagner intended his "sacred dramatic festival" to be performed and where the acoustics are ideal-even, unfortunately, for coughs. Knappertsbusch slowly and hypnotically weaves the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus into a rich tapestry of sound against which budding Heldentenor Jess Thomas as Parsifal, Baritone George London as King Amfortas and Soprano Irene Dalis as the tortured Kundry eloquently play out the medieval legend of renunciation and redemption...
This name-calling of "realistic" and "tenderminded" does not clarify things much. Each of us is convinced that within his own vision of the mechanics of world affairs lies that ideal combination of compassion and realism in the face of decisions of power. The first problem is to discover what the United States is actually doing. Then theoretically you can endorse one of three foreign policy alternatives: using power as the Administration is doing; ceasing to exert pressure on the internal affairs of other nations; or continuing to exert pressure but in a different direction...
...Washington, Lyndon Johnson applauded the idea of a Cambodian conference. In London, Prime Minister Harold Wilson heartily concurred. And in Paris, where Charles de Gaulle was playing host to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, both France and Russia gave their consent. To all and sundry it seemed an ideal backdoor to negotiations over Viet Nam, and it was precisely that which bugged the Snook...
...Bravo for Princeton!" Dean Monro commented yesterday. Ungraded courses are "the ideal"; however, the practical task of getting students into graduate schools necessitates compromise, he qualified. Monro lauded Princeton for its "wild experiment--an idea both original and good...
...garage, the design should please Venetians. Yet, however harmonious this adventuring architecture, there is still much bureaucratic approval to survive. San Giobbe hospital refers, of course, to Job. And for the sick as well as for an architect wishing to build in Venice, Job's patience is an ideal...