Word: lamentations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blue Denim is twin-burner drama: Arthur's relations to his girl provide the plot; his relations to his family, the basic problem. For though clearly the young lovers had far better have stayed apart, the play in the final and family sense is a lament for untogetherness. It dramatizes the barriers between generations, the dangers in families that have no communications system. What with the young couple's agonizing jam, the dangers in Blue Denim get vividly spotlighted and the story line holds. But there is not much at the end of the line, and there...
...insights. The libretto was admirably supplemented by Suchon's muscular score, which reminded the enthusiastic audience of the music of Czechoslovakia's Leos (Jenufa) Janacek and Hungary's Bela Bartok. Strongly rhythmic, it combined rich Slovakian folk flavor with pungently powerful orchestration. In Katrena's lament over her fate, strikingly sung by Soprano Anny Schlemm, and in Ondrej's affecting admission of guilt, Suchon provided crowd-rousing vocal high points that might well place The Vortex in the standard operatic literature...
...Dennis the Menace or Jimmy Ratio's Little Iodine, its characters are disingenuous and uncute. Charlie, whose peanut-bald head is surmounted by a single dispirited curl, is a junior-grade Walter Mitty, whose highflying dreams of popularity crash in endless ignominies. Charlie's characteristic lament: "Good grief!" The chief scorpion in his child's garden of reverses is a promising young termagant named Lucy, who, with apprentice-shrews Violet and Patty, sharpens her talons on Charlie's ego. "Good Ol' Charlie Brown," purrs Violet as Charlie passes. "Nobody hates him, everybody likes him . . . What...
Cohen added that it is "foolish to lament the passing of the ancient humanities, nor should we wish to stop the progress of science, which we cannot. But we can control the applications made of scientific discoveries and we can ensure that those who practice science be not cultural barbarians...
...Trish grabbed a recording contract with Decca. She might hit the big time, with the help of a cute nickname (short for Patricia), a fine nose for publicity and a sentimental, "There's-a-tree-in-the-meadow" kind of voice. Her first record, Far Away, a sugary lament for vagrant love, is sure to be mooned over by teen-agers on the outs with their steadies...