Word: inexplicitness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single, blinding white beam split the backdrop, silhouetting the struggle in all its throat-catching violence. When Wotan summoned the magic fire at the finale, the blackness was pierced by a single red spot, transforming Wotan's spear into a tongue of flame; in the inexplicit staging, these moments stood out in a relief that old-fashioned literalness could never achieve. The orchestra, which Von Karajan subdued to the point of regretfulness during the love scene between Siegmund and his twin sister Sieglinde in Act I, later blared and crackled as Wotan and Fricka haggled about the implications...
...Castro's regime is yet to be written, he insists that this much of it has become "increasingly clear." He apparently considers the quoted lines an objective statement of historical fact, but the book reveals, in various ways, that Draper's view of these facts is warped by an inexplicit, unadmitted appraisal of Castro's motives...