Word: l
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DEBUSSY: LA MER, L'APRES-MIDI D'UN FAUNE, JEUX (CBS). Claude Debussy is the father of modern music, and Pierre Boulez is one of France's leading musical experimenters. To hear how Boulez handles these familiar works is to be reminded of how radical they are. "Debussy inaugurated a new and extremely personal type of sonorous universe, new in color as well as in mobility," says Boulez. By simply trusting the new sounds instead of trying to force them into old melodic patterns, he has made his own revolution in the interpretation of Debussy. An important...
...Ballots and Bandwagons, Ralph G. Martin saw it as "a glorified national town meeting, mixed with a sense of circus and a huge tremor of hope and history." To H. L. Mencken, it was "vulgar, ugly, stupid, tedious, hard upon both the higher cerebral centers and the gluteus maximus. And yet there suddenly comes a show so gaudy and hilarious, so melodramatic and obscene, so unimaginably exhilarating and preposterous that one lives a gorgeous year in an hour...
...command to love thy neighbor, when we already know that between now and 1980 approximately 40 million people will starve to death?" In Manhattan, demonstrators representing the Parents' Aid Society, a militant birth control group, paraded in protest outside St. Patrick's Cathedral. The Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, hard put to include favorable non-Catholic judgments in its roundup of world opinion, solemnly noted that the Pope had received a message of support from a family of Norwegian Protestants with 14 children...
Every night, during the "May Days" of the Sorbonne revolt, a greying, middle-aged man descended from his Left Bank attic flat and ambled over to the student-occupied Théátre de L'Odéon. There he listened with amused interest as youthful nihilists denounced the entire span of French history as irrelevant. Their harsh judgment did not surprise him. In five slim volumes of pel lucid, painfully distilled essays, Rumanian-born Philosopher E. M. Cioran, 57, has argued the terrible futility of human history. More originally than any other living thinker, he has defined...
...with airy grace into a tapestry of boxwood mazes, promenades, canals, fountains, staircases, statuary and grottoes that stretch to the horizon. The ornate Chambre du Roi, which lies to the left of the Grand Salon, illustrates the other French addition to the baroque. Luscious nudes hover overhead in trompe-l'eoil with voluptuousness that the Italians never envisioned-or permitted themselves...